skitching

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Apr 12 23:28:39 UTC 2001


>
>  >NPR talking to a bike messenger: hitching on a car: "skitching."
>
>  >Author of : The Immortal Class: bike messengers and the cult of
>  >human power
>
> has "skitching" been collected?

We have about four examples, all from the 1990s, in the OED files. I
have one cite in the HDAS files as well, from a 1996 episode of _ER,_
in reference to holding onto a car on foot as it pulls you along a
icy road.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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