motorhuckle boots

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's a guy who claims we "always" called them "motohuckle boots":

http://anomalycentral.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/more-leather-stuff/

JL
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> "Motorhuckle" appears in HDAS on the basis of King's extraordinary
> popularity and the fact that he used it at least twice.
> But perhaps it is (or was) idiosyncratic after all.
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> JL
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
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> > Jonathan Lighter's "Random House Historical Dictionary of American
> > Slang: H-O" has an entry for motorhuckle on page 599. The two cites he
> > gives are the two you mentioned:
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> > motorhuckle n. motorcycle. Joc.
> > 1983 S. King Christine 79: Get on your motorhuckle boots, boys.
> > 1981-85 S. King It 340: All of them with their motorhuckle boots
> > cocked up on the seats in front of them.
> >
> > Reviewing the top Google matches for "motorhuckle" reveals a large
> > number of spam-like websites with fragments of copied text. Many
> > matches are occurring in the sentences of King's novels that feature
> > the word "motorhuckle", and in word mishmashes. Google (Everything)
> > initially estimates "About 794 results" for "motorhuckle", but
> > repeatedly clicking on next exhausts the matches on "Page 11 of 104
> > results".
> >
> > Problems with the "Google Ngram Viewer" have been discussed on the
> > list. For the primary search engine the problem of manipulators
> > constructing artificial websites with automated junk content may grow
> > over time.
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> > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
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> > > Poster:       Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject:      motorhuckle boots
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> > > Stephen King uses the term "motorhuckle boots" in his novels _It_ and
> > > _Christine_.  Google returns 438 raw hits including one with a picture
> > > of the boots.  But I haven't been able to find anything about the
> > > origin of the term.  OED doesn't include it, and I don't have access
> > > to DARE.
> > >
> > > Herb
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