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(2) a "side door Pullman car" was hobo slang for a box car with the cargo door open which made it easy to "bum" a ride. The "Yellow Dog" was the local name for the Yazoo Delta Railroad ; the "Southern" is the much larger Southern Railway .
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"Coca-Cola Cowboy" is a song written by Steve Dorff, Sandy Pinkard, Sam Atchley, and Bud Dain, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in June 1979 as the first single from the album Mr. Entertainer .
Fred Shuster of the Los Angeles Daily News wrote, "Songs like 'Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!' and 'Fifteen Minutes' are well-sung and tuneful". [13] Tom Harrison of The Province described the song as "spritely" and a "worthy sequel" to MacColl's " There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis ".
His mom bought him his first guitar for his 16th birthday, but he didn’t play it for a while. When his parents split and his father moved to Laredo, one of his dad’s friends there took him aside.
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry. The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical.
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According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, the term "hot dog" has had more than eight different meanings — from showoff to porn — over the years, dating back to 1881.