[Ads-l] antedating "crapper"
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 29 01:33:54 UTC 2025
OED (and HDAS) has the primary sense from so late as 1927.
1921 _Detective Story Magazine_ (July 30) 90 [Int. Archive]: You said it,
bo. Cinch! I’ve been doping it day and night, back there to the
"crapper"—State prison—for quite a bit.
JL
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