Daily Candy Lexicons I, II, III

[Mark A Mandel]

        [Barry P]
#> #DAILY CANDY LEXICON III (June 17, 2002)
#> #
#> #"I smoke O.P.'s." As in "I smoke other people's cigarettes."

        [Mark M]
#> I heard this one at least as early as late sixties. It reminds me of:

        [Jesse S]
#HDAS has this to 1929, and "O.P." (not with the genitive) from decades
#earlier.

I take the /-z/ as plural, as in "Marlboros", not genitive.

-- Mark M.