hurt locker (1966)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Latest Word Routes column is "hurt locker," military slang dating back
to Vietnam:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2195/

HDAS has it from 1978 -- Google News Archive returns cites from '66
and '67 in AP dispatches from John T. Wheeler.


--Ben Zimmer

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