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West, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1859

My present dress consists of a very bad jim crow, a red serge shirt with pockets, a blue serge pair of trousers, stockings and moccasins, a huge gauze bag over my head, and a short pipe puffing to try and keep the 'squitors off.

1962

"Bad medicine," "chaffy," "snide," "jim-crow," and "pizen," are applied to anything worthless on the Eastern slope of the Rockies. . . .