[Ads-l] pop a cap: big antedating

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Bust a cap" is now more usual.


As HDAS notes, amongst the colored, this has been most usually expressed as

"bust a cap _in your ass_"

since ca. 1963.


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-Wilson
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