[Ads-l] "hog farm", "cat wagon", Amer. slang; not in OED?

Joel Berson berson at ATT.NET
Mon Apr 11 04:33:00 UTC 2016


Suspecting they were, I merely said "not OED".

Joel

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"Farms that also operated as brothels."

I bet. Cf. "hog ranch" in HDAS (not, BTW, a ranch).

ISTR that "cat wagon" is in there too.

JL


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