[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hold-Out"

[Shapiro, Fred]

hold-out, n. (OED, b., 1945)

1888 _New York Press_ 19 Apr. in Edward J. Nichols _Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology_ (1939) 34

Fred Shapiro

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