Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS has it, but Wilson takes it back a decade earlier.

Fact: evidence for details of AAVE before about 1965 is spotty because few
African Americans had access to the media, and those that did usu.
concentrated on SE. (Dan Burley was app. unique.)  If black cartoonists,
say, had been responsible for even 10% of America's comic strips, or black
satirists had been in the same proportion, I think the dating of many
features, incl. slang terms, would be pushed back considerably.

JL

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Lisa Galvin <lisagal23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Never heard it=2C but found these on urbandictionary.com:
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> 1. An older expression (circa 1950's) used to describe the action of
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> "Gotta work in the morning=2C so I'm gonna hat up."
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> 2. To wear a condom
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> "Did she make you hat up?"
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