WUXTRA ! WUXTRA!: "hike down," "man up"

[neil]

Being in the UK, I'm not sure when B&B first surfaced, but I do have 'pitch
a tent' from the 1990s:

"She had the top of her dress pulled down. Then we walked off to my tent."

"I have to take my pants off," I suddenly said. "I just pitched a tent
myself."

--Howard Stern, 'Private Parts', Pocket books, NY, 1994, 521

Neil Crawford

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> I think "pitch a tent" goes back as far as Beavis and Butthead, at =
> least.
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>> I think that "go commando" is as old as "Seinfeld." I've heard "pitch
>> a tent" used by women on late-night dating shows - "I love it when I
>> can make a guy pitch a tent" - over the past couple or three years, at
>> least.
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>> -Wilson
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