[Ads-l] Antedating of "Slammer" (Jail)

[Ben Zimmer]

There's a date discrepancy here. The May 2, 1936 cite that Fred provided is
from the City Edition of the Chicago Defender.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chicago-defender/174971363/

The GDoS cite from May 9 is from the Defender's National Edition, which
evidently waited a week to run Dan Burley's column. (The National Edition
is available on ProQuest.)

On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
00001aa1be50b751-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Also listed in Jonathon Green's wonderful dictionary of slang
> https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ds5zssa#sn2a
> 1936 D. Burley in Chicago Defender 9 May 23: Back Door’s Revised
> Dictionary [...] the slammer - 48th St. jail.
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > slammer (OED, n.1, 1952)
> >
> > 1936 Dan Burley in Chicago Defender 2 May 24/1 (Newspapers.com)
> >
> > THE SLAMMER - 48th St. jail.
>
>

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