New (to me) slang

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Mar 22 21:05:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> But, then, you're not a coal-miner.
>
> This phr. is also new to me, and sounds somewhat factitious.

"Hillbilly heroin" is a more widely distributed, if perhaps
equally factitious, term for this.

Jesse Sheidlower
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