[Ads-l] kegerator (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Univ of Delaware _The Review_ p 24 col 2
"FOR SALE . . . 1 new miller tap $25, 1 Kegerator Beer Tap."
http://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/11902/udr_108_28.pdf?sequence=1

Harvard Crimson 11/19/1988
"The room is straight out of an Ohio State frat house--the television blares the Monday Night Football Game, a kegerator and a bar sit over on the side."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/11/19/harvards-buckeye-boys-pthe-pair-first/

_The Observer_ [Univ of Notre Dame] 4/13/1989 p 12 col 3
[classified ad]
"Wanted Kegerator for 89-90"
http://www.archives.nd.edu/observer/1989-04-13_v22_118.pdf


> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Benjamin Barrett
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 8:32 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: kegerator
>  
> Not on the Oxford Dictionary site, kegerator is found on Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kegerator 
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kegerator>), but the definition implies that you have to start with a refrigerator and use a
> conversion kit. The Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegerator) makes it clear that that is not the case.
> 
> I commonly find people who do not know what a kegerator is.
> 
> The earliest citation I see on Google Books is 1994 (http://bit.ly/1pzRw3c <http://bit.ly/1pzRw3c>,
> Google-dated but appears accurate), which implies that it was already in standard use:
> 
> Sexual Communication in the Age of AIDS
> Dana Lear
> 
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> If you go downstairs, we have a bar downstairs, where we have what's called a kegerator.
> =====
> 
> The next earliest is 1996 (http://bit.ly/2328rsn <Caution-Caution-http://bit.ly/2328rsn>), but there are dates later than
> that in the book. It is possible that it is still valid.
> 
> The Cornellian, Volume 128
> 
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> With all the seniors gathered around we decided to have the K.O.K.s get another keg for the 'Kegerator.”
> =====
> 
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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