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crummy
[prob. < crumb body louse]
Esp. West Coast, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1942 and 1964 quotes.
Quotations
1942
Crummy . . . A box car or an old caboose converted to passenger carrying by the addition of a few wooden benches, and used to carry the men to and from work.
1957
Most of these men live in towns and travel perhaps forty miles to work in a "crummy."
1964
Loggers ride in cold and heat in old trucks called crummies, which are "crummy."