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[Jonathan Lighter]

They'd be treatin'.

JL

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 1970   L. B. Montgomery in S. Terkel Hard Times v. 377   They had Blue
> Monday parties, the sporting people... If they'd been hustlin'
> anything,
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> _they'd be poppin'_,
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> buying moonshine, having fun, on Monday.
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>  f. U.S. slang. To pay (for).
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> 1947   W. Motley Knock on Any Door 169   He might _pop (for)_ the drinks.
> 1959   R. Bloch Big Kick in Blood runs Cold (1961) 218   He didn't
> _pop_... I said we were leaving..and all he did was smile.
> 1968   L. J. Braun Cat who turned on & Off (1969) xxi. 182   Hell. I
> didn't buy you anything, but I'll _pop (for)_ lunch.
> 1991   J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 533   The
> deal goes down at Lorimar and we actually get them to _pop (for)_ Anne
> Rice writing a ‘bible’ for a series of movies.
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> What does
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> _poppin'_
>
> mean, in
>
> "… they'd be poppin', …"?
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> "… they'd be payin' (for), …"
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> as in,
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> "…they'd be payin' (for), buyin' moonshine"?
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> That is, there's a kind of stutter by the speaker? Bloch 1959 (1961)
> is too incomplete for me to tell whether that's what's going on, here.
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