antedating (?) "Nip-and-tuck" 1843

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has 1845

The Home Missionary
By Joseph H Chandler, American Home Missionary Society, Congregational
September, 1843
Rev. A.M. Dixon (Google Books full view) p. 103
I have just returned from a tour fourty miles up the Mississippi. I visited
Muskalonge, a mining region....In Bee Town and Nip-and-tuck, there are two or
three hundred miners....

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf

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