"Hip" in Football: Precursor to "Hut"?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Sat Jan 15 22:51:44 UTC 2005


Possibly so, but my memory of it goes back at least to the mid sixties.

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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I think the "yodelep" version is in "Full Metal Jacket".



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Wish I could remember my source, Wilson - maybe it WAS "The Lieutenant," though I usually watched something else in that time slot - can't remember what, though.

Jon


Wilson Gray wrote:
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On Jan 14, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Naturally, I care. Presumably before standardization, the call could
> be uttered as "Hup! Toop! Treep! Haw!" Or so I once saw it in a
> fifties novel.
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> "Your left! ...Left!...Your left, right, left!" could be
> "Yodelep!...Lep!...Yodelep, rye lep!"
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