| 单词 | peanut bum |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeanut bum peanut bum n. U.S. College slang (now historical and rare) (chiefly at Yale University) a celebration by a student society in which the students scramble for a large quantity of peanuts emptied over the floor of the society's hall; cf. bum n.6 2.The entertainment appears to have arisen in the 1860s and been curtailed in the early 1880s. ΚΠ 1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale i. i. 76 By the time he becomes a Junior or Senior, he hardly thinks of his society at all, save when he..is invited to a play or ‘peanut bum’. 1876 Yale Literary Mag. Nov. 101 Δ. Κ. had its annual peanut bum on Saturday evening. 1880 Columbia Spectator (Columbia Univ, N.Y.) 20 Apr. 68/2 The freshmen have had a reckless and exciting ‘peanut bum’. 2002 A. Robbins Secrets of Tomb ii. 55 On some occasions or at the end of literary activities, the society would hold a ‘peanut bum’. < as lemmas |
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