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loaded for bear
- prepared for an emergency, heavily armed US, 1927
The term arose in the late C19 as a literal description of a weapon loaded with ammunition suitable for killing a bear, and then in the 1950s came to assume a figurative meaning that dominates today. - But the O’Sheel woman is coming in loaded for bear this time. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 54, 1957
- She looked at the big .45 in Goldy’s hand. Her eyes stretched and her lips twitched. But she didn’t look surprised. “You-call hass sure come loaded for bear.” — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 140, 1957
- We began the trip into town loaded for bear. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 173, 1972
- I get out there in Framingham this morning, there’s old Tiger Mike Fobarty, got his yellow suit on and he’s loaded for bear. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 133, 1981
- Funny how a few hours before we’d been a rifle platoon loaded for bear, and now we were on our ass, hurling firecrackers and not making a dent. — David H. Hackworth, About Face, p. 73, 1989
- In one minute there were seventeen blue boys there, I loaded for bear, all knowing exactly what the fuck they were doing, and they were all just there. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- in trucking, equipped with a citizens’ band radio US
With BEAR - — The Official CB Slang Dictionary Handbook, p. 38, 1976: “Slingo”
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