[Ads-l] Antedating of "Truck" Words

[Shapiro, Fred]

truck (OED, v.2, 3.a. [of a person], 1938)  1935 Washington Tribune 11 May 15/3 (Genealogy Bank)  Come on Gang. "Truck on Down" to Ambia's and Goodie's House Warming.

trucking (OED, n.2, 2. [action of dancing the truck], 1935 [15 Nov.])  1935 Afro-American (Baltimore) 11 May 14 (ProQuest)  Junie Ukkerd, a debonair Astaire at home.  (Watch his truckin' version.)  1935 Philadelphia Tribune 13 June 6 (ProQuest)  Experts in Truckin', Waltzing and the Collegiate.

NOTE:  Curiously, the OED does not have an entry for the noun "truck," meaning the dance.

Fred Shapiro

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