wingman
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ronbutters at AOL.COM
Sun Dec 2 19:15:19 UTC 2007
It was NOT current at U of Iowa in the 1960s. We were not that devious.
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From: Dave Wilton
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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] wingman
>That's not quite the collegiate sense of "wingman" that I recall from
>the late '80s / early '90s. This extended definition from
>Urbandictionary seems more canonical:
It is at least a few years older. It was current when I went to college in
the early 80s (1981-85).
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