_Raunch[ing]_ "drink[ing]"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not quite the same but relevant. From the secret files of...HDAS:

1942 Nelson Algren _Never Come Morning_ (rpt. N.Y.: Signet, 1969) 43: Us
hoods don't do nothin' but shoot dice an' raunch broads.

1968 _Playboy_ (Aug.) 78: Some of those sexually explicit "adult movies"
where people go raunching around in theie whole skins.

JL

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> This meaning of _raunch_, new to me, is from a post to the 78th Army
> Security Agency "Alumni" UUnet page. The poster served in the 78th
> from '65-'67. I got out in '62.
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> However, it appears from various posts that the 78th was far larger
> than I thought it was. (I had no need to know, of course.) So, it
> could be that it was also used when I was in the 78th, just not in the
> particular subunit of it that I served in.
>
> Since the poster felt that the term needed definition for the benefit
> of his readers, it could be that it was simply an in-group, nonce
> usage, like the sarcastic, "Why, no. Would you like to tell me about
> it?" used in my unit response to someone else's attempt to unload the
> tale of his particular woes of the day on you. Such a person usually
> opened with a rhetorical question like, "Do you know WTF that asshole,
> SGT Weir, had us doing on our shift?!"
>
> As though the rest hadn't also had a day that sucked!
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