[Ads-l] OED March 2016 New Words notes (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Assorted antedatings
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Gotcha Journalism -- OED has 1983

_Los Angeles Times_ 28 May 1982 p 9 col 2 [photo caption]

"Gotcha! Journalism: a sampling of the unabashed British tabloids."

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Celebrity Culture -- OED has 18 May 1951

_Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution_ p 16C col 6

"It is a fictional study of what Mrs. Hobson calls "our celebrity culture" and is the story of two brothers, one of whom writes a best-selling novel, but permits the other to become the center of attention."

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Army Green -- OED has 1908 (noun), 1937 (adj)

_The Wilkes-Barre [PA] Record_ 1 Nov 1897 p 5 col 2
"Boxes A and C will be occupied by the Luzerne County Medical Society, the decorations being army green, white shield with red cross in the center."

"Army greens" = fatigues, uniform (1946)

_Sydney [Aus] Morning Herald_ 4 May 1945, p 3 col 6
"Australian naval beach commandos wearing Army greens went into action for the first time at Tarakan."

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Army Navy -- (1945, adj meaning military surplus)

_Charleston [WV] Daily Mail_ 2 Jan 1934 p 9 col 4 [classified ad]
"Cheap passage to Roanoke, Virginia.  Inquire Army-Navy Store, 703 Virginia St."

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Armchair General (1901)

_Ottawa [Canada] Journal_ 21 May 1900 p 7 col 3
"Those are the kind of snags the British have been striking, and which accounts for some of their heavy losses, I think, which gives so much worry to some of our arm-chair generals at home."

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Arms embargo (1913)

_Chicago Daily Tribune_ 11 Aug 1903 p 2 col 3
"England Removes Arms Embargo" [headline]

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Dadaesque (1932)

_Cincinnati Enquirer_ 12 Feb 1922 p 4 col 4
"The ballroom was a picture of that which never before was on sea or land, for it depicted the royal court of a Futurist King at one end of the bizarre throne, at the other an equally unique balcony where Dadaesque musicians played popular airs."


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Differential lock (1914)

Chicago IL _Inter Ocean_ 8 Feb 1911 p 13 col 1
"The differential lock, a unique feature for giving tremendous drive to both wheels, and other emergency devices were applied."

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Side-view mirror ([1924], 1931)

_Detroit Free Press_ 25 Sep 1914 p 11 col 4
"We have lamps, radiators, hood covers, tops, coupe bodies, Prest-O-Lite tanks, batteries, electric lighting outfits,  re-liners, inner shoes, vulcanizing outfits, side view mirrors, and hundreds of other things too numerous too mention."

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OED has a new entry for "arm wrestle" ( [1929], 1939), but nothing for "wrist wrestle"

Verb:
_[Salem] Oregon Statesman_ 17 Sep 1958 p 11 col 2
"So they'll wrist-wrestle on a table which is to be set up in the ring."

Noun:

_Hartford Courant_ p 6B col 3
"The dispute started, police said, over a "wrist wrestle" the pair had engaged in in a nearby bar."

Hanover, PA _Evening Sun_ 19 Sep 1972 p 9 col 8
"You can really get to know people by challenging them to a wrist-wrestle."

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And not on the new words list, but . . . 

Anyhoo -- OED has 1928

_Universal Weekly_  13 Sept 1924 p 35 col 1
"Anyhoo, after getting the ball to rolling in New Castle, I beat it away from there and came like a bat out of hell for Pittsburgh."
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Armchair quarterback (1952)

_Ottawa [Canada] Journal_ 12 Dec 1932 p 19 col 1
"Armchair quarterbacks argued heatedly today that an attempt at a field goal from placement might have gained the winning points or at least offered an opportunity for a rouge point,  as the ball was almost dead in line with the St. Thomas goal posts."


Bat out of hell (1921)
Washington DC _Evening Star_ 17 Aug 1895 p 15 col 5
"Toiling up the terrible grade, one horse on the cook's wagon gave out, and four of the cowboys hitched their lariats to the pole and jerked the wagon up the gulch "like a bat out o' hell," as one man graphically put it."

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