1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

My grandfather preferred "cuspidor" to "spittoon."

Fora while as a tot, I believed that "stevedore" was a variant.

JL

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > > They were spittoons, not cigarette urns. . . .Never saw one in the
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> A spittoon plays prominently in "Rio Bravo" (1959), with John Wayne and
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