tolo(s)

[Joan Houston Hall]

I heard "tolo" (not "tolos") for a turnabout (Sadie Hawkins) dance in about
1962 from someone who had come to California from Seattle.

At 11:57 PM 12/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>Poster:       Sam Clements <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
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>In a discussion over at Straightdope,  a poster offered that he/she knew the
>term "tolos" to mean a Sadie Hawkins Dance.
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>Where does this one come from and when?  (tolos)
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>Another poster, who is a rather good Googler, found a cite which indicated
>current Northwest US usage of the term.