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"For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword"

For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword
he new 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary published yesterday offers a nimble dash through the trite and traumatic, the grim and the gracious — offering right proper definitions for terms yanked from the news media, cyberspace, Hollywood, science, warfare and even the beauty parlor.
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[nq:1]For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword he new 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary published yesterday offers a nimble dash through the ... right proper definitions for terms yanked from the news media, cyberspace, Hollywood, science, warfare and even the beauty parlor. ) I know the words are older than "The Sopranos".

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  • [nq:1]For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword he new 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary published yesterday offers a nimble dash through the ...
  • right proper definitions for terms yanked from the news media, cyberspace, Hollywood, science, warfare and even the beauty parlor.
  • ) I know the words are older than "The Sopranos".
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[nq:1]For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword he new 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary published yesterday offers a nimble dash through the ... right proper definitions for terms yanked from the news media, cyberspace, Hollywood, science, warfare and even the beauty parlor. http://www.washtimes.c
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[nq:1]For Oxford dictionary, hip is watchword he new 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary published yesterday offers a nimble dash through the ... right proper definitions for terms yanked from the news media, cyberspace, Hollywood, science, warfare and even the beauty parlor. http://www.washtimes.c
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[nq:1]On one of yesterday's morning TV shows a commentator claimed that thereare at least 2 news words in the OED: badabeem badaboom (spelled for effect, please; may be badabim, badabum.) I know the wordsare older than "The Sopranos".[/nq]
The Sopranos usage is spelt in a
display sign, Bada-Bing.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
dphillipson(at)trytel.com
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[nq:1]The Sopranos usage is spelt in a display sign, Bada-Bing.[/nq]
And that's the only way I've ever heard it from
those who incorporated it into their conversation
about ten years ago.

Michael West
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