A new word?

[Jim Parish]

Matthew Gordon wrote:
> FWIW "judo chop" is used by Austin Powers. Presumably the screenwriters took
> it from some real-life 60's source.

I remember, in particular, seeing it used in a Peanuts cartoon, I believe
by Sally. (She had done something that her teacher was going to be
upset with, and was afraid that the teacher would "give [her] a judo
chop". She made an appropriate flat-handed gesture as she said this.)

Jim Parish

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> On 8/17/06 2:51 PM, "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:47:19PM -0500, Jim Parish wrote:
> >> Fred Shapiro wrote, of "karate":
> >>> I posted this here in 2004, then someone whose identity is masked in the
> >>> archives contributed a slightly earlier 1947 citation, which then was
> >>> pushed back slightly more within 1947 by Sam Clements.
> >>
> >> I remember a time - probably in the early to mid-sixties - when a certain
> >> martial-arts move was popularly known as a "judo chop"; the phrase
> >> was later corrected to "karate chop". I haven't heard or seen either
> >> phrase in a long time. Does anyone have any data on their heydays?
> >
> > Always "karate chop" on Long Island in the early '80s.
> >
> > "Judo chop" is weird, as judo doesn't have chops as such.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
> > OED
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