antedating (?) "ass bandit"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Note: HDAS was the  first work of historical lexicography to have cited
> aircraft "nose art" from historical photographs.
>

Go 'head, Jon!

But how do we know what "ass bandit" meant, During The War? I had to look
it up in HDAS to see what it meant in 1954, the year that I graduated from
high school, supposedly booted to the hip and hip to the haps.


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