Soc(k)dol(l)ager

[sagehen]

19 March 1893, Chicago Daily Tribune, pg. 36:
"Origin of the Word "Socdollager."
A writer in the March _Atlantic_ gives this as the origin of the slang word
"socdollager," which was current some time ago.
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Already passe in 1893?  Perhaps, but it was still occasionally heard in  my
childhood in NE in the '30s & '40s. The funny papers  *might* have
contributed to its survival. The meaning as something settling a matter was
still intact.
AM

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