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My father used this expression that I thought to be his alone. It meant "to sneak extra drinks" as in, "I don't know how he got that drunk, he must be 'Dick Smith-ing' in the kitchen...."
Recently, a friend, whose parents also grew up in San Francisco, used the same expression. Neither of us know the derivation. Can anyone help?
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Welcome bevman. Can't help I'm afraid - it's new to me.
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Greetings to you, bevman in Napa, from me in the Finger Lakes (well, not in them, but...)
I've never heard the expression either, but hang in there.
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Dick Smithing it
Dick Smith is a band famous for "Swillbilly".
"Swillbilly" is what Dick Smith has dubbed the music poured across Smoke Damage, and it's hard to dispute the title.
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Perhaps the band took its name from the term “Dick Smith-ing” (not that this gets us any closer to the solution).
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Perhaps the band took its name from the term “Dick Smith-ing”The Dick Smith Band has been around since 1982, plenty of time for them to have established their "swillbilly" reputation, Dgeigh. "Dick Smith and The Dole Q" started in August 1978 with a Open Air Gig at the Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton, and ended in the spring of 1982 as "The Dick Smith Band" , that was the end of Part1 .http://www.dicksmithband.co.uk
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Yes, 22 years is plenty of time to establish a reputation. Nevertheless, that does not preclude the possibility of the band taking its name from a previously existing expression.
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I'm thinking that there is a San Francisco connection to the term. My detective work would have taken me to Herb Caen, the famous SF columnist, but he's dead. There doesn't appear to be an heir to his doyen-of-local-history throne.
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