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From: brita@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Getting hosed
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Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 23:31:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 18 23:31:51 1984
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	Lately I've been seeing references (mainly in net.jokes) to `ding
letters', rejection letters to job-seekers.

	The term is new to me -- at Princeton, the term is `hose letters'.
This is derived from a very common (locally) verb, `to hose', used generically
for screwing someone over, or rejection.  For example, "She hosed me for a
date this weekend," or "The professor really hosed us on that exam."

	Has anyone seen this usage anywhere else in the country?  The usage
in Canada (e.g., `hosehead') seems quite different, though it's almost
certainly the source of Princeton's word.

				Stewart Wiener
			   Princeton Univ. EECS '84
		{allegra,harpo,ulysses}!princeton!flakey!stewart