From OED.com -- popping

[Joel S. Berson]

"Hustling" isn't "popping" or "treating" though,
is it?  A hustler tries *not* to pay for what he receives.

Joel

At 7/16/2012 06:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>They'd be treatin'.
>
>JL
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>On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 1970   L. B. Montgomery in S. Terkel Hard Times v. 377   They had Blue
> > Monday parties, the sporting people... If they'd been hustlin'
> > anything,
> >
> > _they'd be poppin'_,
> >
> > buying moonshine, having fun, on Monday.
> >
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> http://oed.com/view/Entry/147790?rskey=IgWxPM&result=15&isAdvanced=false#eid
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> >  f. U.S. slang. To pay (for).
> >
> > 1947   W. Motley Knock on Any Door 169   He might _pop (for)_ the drinks.
> > 1959   R. Bloch Big Kick in Blood runs Cold (1961) 218   He didn't
> > _pop_... I said we were leaving..and all he did was smile.
> > 1968   L. J. Braun Cat who turned on & Off (1969) xxi. 182   Hell. I
> > didn't buy you anything, but I'll _pop (for)_ lunch.
> > 1991   J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 533   The
> > deal goes down at Lorimar and we actually get them to _pop (for)_ Anne
> > Rice writing a ‘bible’ for a series of movies.
> >
> > What does
> >
> > _poppin'_
> >
> > mean, in
> >
> > "
 they'd be poppin', 
"?
> >
> > "
 they'd be payin' (for), 
"
> >
> > as in,
> >
> > "
they'd be payin' (for), buyin' moonshine"?
> >
> > That is, there's a kind of stutter by the speaker? Bloch 1959 (1961)
> > is too incomplete for me to tell whether that's what's going on, here.
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