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Flintstones
nickname- the UK armed forces US
The cartoon television series The Flintstones depicted a stone-age world in which C20 technology is comically replaced by prehistoric ingenuity. As a nickname used by the US military it reflects the outdated “prehistoric” equipment and shortages of everyday supplies that force the UK forces to improvise and scrounge. - — Evening Standard, p. 6, 7 March 2003: “Why the Yanks call us the flintstones”
- a variety of LSD UK
Identified by a picture of the cartoon characters the Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1966; sometimes shortened to “flints”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
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