"Dipe" in "Dipe-ducat" (subway ticket) in 1922 "Flappers' Dictionary

[Erik Hoover]

Google shows several instantiations of the 'flapper's dictionary' with
the term as 'dive-ducat'

Perhaps the Edwardsville Intelligencer introduced a typo?

Erik


On Dec 11, 2004, at 6:20 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

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> Subject:      "Dipe" in "Dipe-ducat" (subway ticket) in 1922 "Flappers'
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> In a Sept. 27, 2003 ads-l message, Barry Popik presented a Flappers'
> Dictionary (14 Sept. 1922 _Edwardsville Intelligencer_ (Edwardsville,
> Illinois).
> Several items call for attention, but none so much as "Dipe" in
> "Dipe-ducat -- a subway ticket." I checked the microfilm. The spelling
> really is "Dipe."
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>    But what does this word mean?
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> Gerald Cohen
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