g-ma

[Victor Steinbok]

[Gee-mah] in Necessary Roughness S01E04 @5:43

> Is this gonna get ugly, g-ma?


No smoke without fire, right? Or did the writers just make it up as a
"cool" expression? UD thinks it's the former--and tons of ghits to back
it up.

OED has nothing for "get ugly" either and Onelook chokes on that as
well. JL? BZ?

     VS-)

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