"Bindle"

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS records the drug sense of _bindle_ from 1921.

JL

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Robin Hamilton <
robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> > "Bindlestiff" was also the
> > title of a coverstory by James Blish, in Astounding(?) SF in the late
> > '40's or early '50's.
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> I must have come across this when it was reprinted as part of the third of
> what became the Cities in Flight series -- _Earthman, Come Home_ (1955).
> "Bindlestiff" was used to refer to a particular kind of flying city, as I
> remember it.  The whole series drew on a range of background reference to
> American workers' movements.
>
> Robin Hamilton
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