"Za"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:59:36PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Thanks, pizza-lovers.  Now maybe someone someone can find it
> in print before HDAS's primary date of 1968-70 (at the U. of
> Minn.).

Tom Dalzell has already done so, citing 1966 in his _New Partridge's
Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English._

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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