gitmo

[Douglas G. Wilson]

> >>... Is there any chance that this is a false hit ?
> >
> >Looks OK to me.
> >
> >>Gitmo -- not in OED -- HDAS has 1959 -- (Navy) slang for Guantanamo Bay
> >>
> >>"Home on Leave" Indiana, PA _Indiana Evening Gazette_ 1949-08-26, p. 8
> >>col 3.
> >>"Before coming home, Midshipman Balint went on a summer cruise for seven
> >>and one-half weeks with a
> >>week's stopover in England and several weeks in Gitmo, Cuba."
>
>I can't beat Doug's 1949 cite, but here are a few from the early '50s: ....

Not mine, Bill Mullins's.

-- Doug Wilson