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Re: Palooka - tsk , tsk

#38270 08/15/2001 1:53 PM

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My sources don't have much to contribute to "Palooka." All Webster's unabridged says about its origin is "?". Slang and Euphemism Dictionary, Richard Spears, says:

palooka (also paluka) an oaf; an unskilled prizefighter, the name of a comic-strip prizefighter, "Joe Palooka." [U.S. slang, 1900s]

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Re: Palooka - tsk , tsk Sparteye 08/15/2001 1:53 PM

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