"cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 6 20:06:39 UTC 2007
What's a cigarette bat?
-Wilson
On 6/6/07, Sarah Lang <slang at uchicago.edu> wrote:
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> Subject: "cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
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> So I just heard this term today and I cannot find a record of it
> anywhere (I tried possible variant spellings, or even
> mispronunciation). Is anyone familiar with "schoocher"? (Scoob/ed is
> the only thing I can find that is even somewhat related . . . .)
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