New? Or should I have read HDAS more closely?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bart Simpson used "dirt nap" fifteen years ago, but the other stuff is new to yours truly. Thanks, Wilson.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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"Do a gummy" : rub cocaine across the gums in order to get high or rub
an unknown substance across the gums to see whether it's cocaine

"Be on the give" : willing to make a small emergency "loan" - two
quarters to make a phone call or two dimes to make up the $.95 for bus
fare, etc. - to a stranger, knowing that the money will never be repaid

"Outfit (vb.) for a dirt nap" : dress a corpse for burial

-Wilson Gray

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