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1941 H. Smith Gang's All Here 266 There was nothing to do but I must go along with them. I even went into SRO with them. Talk about palsy-walsies!

1966 Social Work Oct. 32/1 The clustering of unattached individuals, many of whom are economically dependent and chronically ill, in licensed SRO buildings is a recognizable pattern.

1977 New Yorker 27 June 85/3 Queens has only nine of New York's several hundred S.R.O. buildings (the letters stand for ‘single-room occupancy’, and the tenants..are often present or former drug addicts).

1890 Texas Siftings 15 Nov. 13/1 At the Grand Opera House Bobby Gaylor, in the Irish Arab, called out the S.R.O. sign.

1903 ‘O. Henry’ in McClure's Mag. July 333/1 After one reading of the Declaration of Independence in New York I've known the S.R.O. sign to be hung out at all the hospitals and police stations.

1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Apr. 16/2 The 1970 edition [of an annual concert], held on March 3,..was an SRO success.