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girlcott, v.

Of a woman or group of women: to boycott.

1884 Argus (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 3 Apr. 3/7 The young women..have resolved to girlcott any young man that smokes or goes out of the theatre between acts. 1943 Kingsport (Tennessee) News (Electronic text) 12 July, The Cabinet wives girlcotted Peggy and lobbied at Jackson until the Secretary was forced to resign. 1987 K. LETTE Girls' Night Out (1989) 215 Julia wears no make-up, always meets her journalistic deadlines, girl-cotts products from South Africa. 2001 F. POPCORN & A. HANFT Dict. Future 192 Female tennis players have considered, but have not yet girlcotted, Grand Slam events that award more prize money to men.

hellzapoppin, adj.

Hectic, chaotic; extremely eventful, action-packed, exciting; ostentatious, flashy.

1945 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 27 Dec. 5/8 The Detroits floundered hilariously into the world championship in seven hellzapoppin' games. 1982 K. A. MARLING Wall-to-wall Amer. ii. 120 Their fields fairly crackle with the hell's-a-poppin' energy of great machines that reap and grind. 1994 Sight & Sound Oct. 49/2 As dull-witted and straitjacketed by cliché as it is visually hellzapoppin, the film may be a watershed moment. 1998 Time 23 Feb. 94/1 Bratby, the Kitchen Sink school leader of the 1950s, had a hellzapoppin love affair with a much younger Diane Hills, to whom he wrote letters.

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