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Big C
noun- cancer US, 1964
- The Washington Whispers have it that Jack Ruby doesn’t stand a chance of beating the Big C. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 19, 1 January 1967
- Walt Disney, who was killed by the big C, was a very heavy ciggie smoker. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. II-1, 15 January 1967
- “Big C” Finally Beats John Wayne [Headline] — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 14, 17 June 1979
- I’ve been sick. The big C...cancer. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 153, 1982
- They don’t think it’s anything silly do they? Like ... Big C ... or any of his pals? — Dan Jenkins, Dead Solid Perfect, p. 26, 1986
- Mo held his own against the Big C. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 226, 1994
- His wife’s in the hospital, has been for a couple months. The big C. — Fargo, 1996
- That’s when I decided I was going to beat this monster, the Big C. — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 243, 2000
- cocaine US
- — J.E. Schmindt, Narcotics Lingo and Lore, p. 16, 1959
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 6, December 1970
- — Donald Louria, The Drug Scene, p. 189, 1971
- — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
- commitment to a relationship seen as something to be feared or avoided UK
- [T]he commitment they represented, the Big C, had caused him to completely forget the night[.] — Colin Butts, Is Harry Still on the Boat?, p. 354, 2003
- in citizens’ band radio slang, applied to many UK towns beginning with C, specifically Caernarfon, Carlisle, Chichester or Chippenham UK
This logic is continued throughout the alphabet, e.g. “big B by the sea” (Brighton), “big D” (Dorchester), “big W” (Worthing); also, villages beginning with C become “little C’ or, in Scotland, “wee C”. - — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 168, 1981
- a female as an sexual object US
A hint of CUNT- — American Speech, p. 273, December 1963: “American Indian student slang”
- a railway conductor US
- — American Speech, p. 285, December 1968: “Addenda to the vocabulary of railroading”
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