[Ads-l] antedating "snake-eyes"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> A throw of two in the game of craps.  OED:1929.
>
> 1916 _Cleveland Press_ (Aug.) 1 :“Little Jo,” “Box Cars,” “Snake Eyes,” or
> “Phoebe.”

Nice work, JL. Back in January 2016 Bill Mullins initiated a thread
about antedating the dice roll sense of "snake eyes". Peter Reitan
shared a citation from the Chronicling America database dated March 9,
1916. Here is a link to Peter's post:
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-January/140326.html

Here is a link to the citation in the newspapers.com database:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/mansfield-mirror-snakeeyes/170931460/

Garson

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