From OED.com -- popping

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Hustling" is not "popping" or "treating."

Successful hustling, however, enables one to pop.

JL

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> "Hustling" isn't "popping" or "treating" though,
> is it?  A hustler tries *not* to pay for what he receives.
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> Joel
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> At 7/16/2012 06:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >They'd be treatin'.
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> >JL
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> >On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > http://oed.com/view/Entry/187490
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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,
> > >
> > > _they'd be poppin'_,
> > >
> > > buying moonshine, having fun, on Monday.
> > >
> > >
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> http://oed.com/view/Entry/147790?rskey=IgWxPM&result=15&isAdvanced=false#eid
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> > >  f. U.S. slang. To pay (for).
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > What does
> > >
> > > _poppin'_
> > >
> > > mean, in
> > >
> > > "… they'd be poppin', …"?
> > >
> > > "… they'd be payin' (for), …"
> > >
> > > as in,
> > >
> > > "…they'd be payin' (for), buyin' moonshine"?
> > >
> > > 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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