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[Bill Mullins]

OED is also missing the related "speed bag".


1927 Riverside Daily Press 4 Mar 12/3


Both battlers went through strenuous gymnasium sessions yesterday, and will taper off today with light sparring, rope skipping, and speed bag punching.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/997234165/?terms=%22speed%20bag%22%20boxer&match=1

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Missing from OED is the once common sense "a tall, heavy punching bag used
in training by prizefighters and others."

1922 _Plain Dealer_ (Cleveland, O.) (Oct. 13) 18: We...saw...Gibbons
playing handball, then skipping rope, abusing the pulley weights and body
bag and winding up with a few rounds of shadow boxing.

1923 _Casper [Wyo.] Sunday Morning Tribune_  (July 1) 1: He also punched
the body bag for two rounds.

Etc., etc.

JL
--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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