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[Wilson Gray]

Sounds more like (old?) BE slang, "beaten up by a gang of people" than
like old(?) white slang, "gangraped."

-Wilson

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jesse Sheidlower<jester at panix.com> wrote:
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> At 7/9/2009 07:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> And after several housewives ganged up on another in a strident argument,
>> she told the camera, "I was sitting there getting literally gangbanged."
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> Now that's more literary than I would credit Real Housewives of New
> Jersey! Â (Or was the speaker Japanese-American?)
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> As for "shkeevy", is this a formation adapted from the Yiddish "sch"? Â I
> guess not, given Jon's reply to Mark about Jewish grandmothers.
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> Joel
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