skillet blond (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Margaret Lee]

Clarence Major's _Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang _ traces the term to the 1920s-1930s and defines it as "a black woman in a blond wig."
 
--Margaret Lee 
 

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 From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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That beats the legendary and elusive HDAS III, where the term is traced
only to the 1940s, in AAV.

JL

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > "According to John McGraw, Donaldson would be worth $50,000 to a major
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