[Ads-l] heebie-jabbie
Ben Zimmer
bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 1 14:35:11 UTC 2016
"Heebie jabbies" = "hijabs", evidently.
http://time.com/4390726/donald-trump-tsa-heebie-jabbies/
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:26 AM, David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
> Any idea what heebie jabbies are?
> DAD
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> Enviada em: sexta-feira, 1 de julho de 2016 09:19
> Para: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Assunto: heebie-jabbie
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> Poster: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: heebie-jabbie
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> Woman: "Get rid of all these heebie jabbies they wear at TSA. I=E2=80=99ve
> seen them myself."
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> Candidate: "... We are looking at that. We are looking at that.
> We=E2=80=99=
> re looking at a lot of things."
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