[Ads-l] pop a cap: big antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

Or . . . 1863?

WTH not?

JL

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > "Bust a cap" is now more usual.
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> As HDAS notes, amongst the colored, this has been most usually expressed as
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> "bust a cap _in your ass_"
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> since ca. 1963.
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