1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yup. Both are related to the Archie strip in question.

JL

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Funny--the entire Google finds only one instance of "hop the
> hickories"--and it's twice on one page (one in the image, another in a
> comment further down).
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> http://goo.gl/xyyFF
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>     VS-)
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> On 5/12/2012 8:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > ...
> > Montana uses a number of expressions that strike me as ad-hoc and for the
> > nonce. Certainly I've never seen them before and they have a factitious
> > sound. Examples: "crack knees" (dance), "drip-lip" (a 'drip'), "tight as
> a
> > sailor's britches," "hop the hickories" (go skiing), "feeble greeble"
> > (weakling), "flick a lid" (take a look), "gush-slush" (romantic lyrics),
> > etc.
> > ...
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