[Ads-l] Antedating of "Truck" (verb)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Jesse,

Would you consider this to be an antedating ?

1934 Baltimore Afro American 3 Nov.  Big Murrell trucked over for the second touchdown.

Fred

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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Truck" (verb)

GDoS has a 1935 example:

1935 Ted Yates _This Is New York_ 19 Apr. [synd. col.] Hilton Jefferson [...] ‘trucks’ to the Quaker City to play an engagement.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 08:31:05PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> truck (OED v.2 3.a. [of a person], 1938)
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> 1937 Metronome Nov. 11 in Robert S. Gold Jazz Talk (1975) 287
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> After Louis boots, the cats truck on to their various domiciles.
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> Fred Shapiro
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