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cropt. short 'O' sound as in the word 'off'

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truncated, cropped, curtailed, sawn-off, trimmed


What does Porch monkey mean?

A term dating back to American 17th century colonial times, that originally referred to African American slaves who when not working would sit and talk with other slaves on the porch of their plantation homes. it did begin as a racial slur and only in the last few decades has it been broadened to also mean lazy people. clerks II did not by any means popularize (or for legal terms on my part, endorse) the term, they just made it known to younger, ignorant viewers of the movie.


What is the origin of the word barber?

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What is the origin of the phrase dop kit?

"...thanks to a discussion of the term "Dopp Kit" on the mailing list of the American Dialect Society (www.americandialect.org) a couple of years ago, I can assure you that "Dop" or "Dopp" isn't an acronym or abbreviation for anything. According to newspaper accounts unearthed by Merriam-Webster's Jim Rader, the Dopp Kit was first produced by Charles Doppelt, a leather goods designer who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1900s. Although it may have been Doppelt's nephew and employee, Jerome Harris, who actually invented the snazzy leather toiletries case, Doppelt was the boss and so the finished product bore a cropped form of his name, giving us the "Dopp Kit." Dopp Kits were manufactured by the Charles Doppelt Company until the firm was purchased by Samsonite in the 1970s, and Dopp Kits today are made by Buxton. The popularity of Dopp Kits was evidently boosted considerably by World War II, in the course of which the U.S. Army issued them to recruits by the millions. Incidentally, the "kit" part of Dopp Kit is not quite the same "kit" we use to mean "a collection of parts used to assemble a whole," as in "model airplane kit." A soldier's "kit" consists of the standard equipment and personal articles issued to and carried by a soldier on a regular basis." http://www.word-detective.com/103001.htm…