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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Yes, I would!

But don't ask me, ask Jonathon Green, or the OED, I'm just a guy with an opinion!

Jesse

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 05:03:13PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> 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)
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> GDoS has a 1935 example:
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> 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)
> >
> > 1937 Metronome Nov. 11 in Robert S. Gold Jazz Talk (1975) 287
> >
> > After Louis boots, the cats truck on to their various domiciles.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
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