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first-of-May
noun- an inexperienced worker US, 1961
A circus word, based on the start of the circus season. - “Some of the fellows in the shop laugh about you behind your back. Know what they call you? “First of May.” That’s an old carnival term for someone who comes out in the spring but doesn’t last through the winter. They don’t think you have the stuff to stick[.] — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 573, 1974
- More common certainly than having some first-of-May, fucking-new-guy rookie triage medic sit there picking at a million slivers of shrapnel with a manicure scissors, a magnifying glass, and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 51, 1986
- a newcomer to a circus or carnival US, 1926
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 34, 1980
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