[Ads-l] "hog farm", "cat wagon", Amer. slang; not in OED?

[Joel Berson]

Suspecting they were, I merely said "not OED".

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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 Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 7:30 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "hog farm", "cat wagon", Amer. slang; not in OED?
   
"Farms that also operated as brothels."

I bet. Cf. "hog ranch" in HDAS (not, BTW, a ranch).

ISTR that "cat wagon" is in there too.

JL


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