Fire blanks
interjection
noun
verb
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turkey-shoot
[fourth verb sense by 1891 in the case of craps]
noun
[origin unknown; perhaps fr Pink, ”a Pinkerton agent engaged in strike-breaking,” or fr German Fink, ”finch,” a university students’ term for a student who did not join in dueling and drinking societies; first sense said to have been used during the Homestead Strike of 1892; fifth noun sense was unaccountably revived in the early 1960s]
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