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单词 what's up, doc?
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what's up, Doc?
2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Used as a general form of address to a man. From the mid 20th cent frequently in what's up, Doc?, chiefly with more or less direct allusion to Bugs Bunny (see note).The person addressed as ‘Doc’ in quot. 1870 is subsequently referred to later (p. 371) as ‘the doctor’, but seems unlikely to be a medical doctor.The phrase ‘what's up, Doc?’, which had already become a catchphrase by the early 20th century, was popularized through its frequent use by the American cartoon character Bugs Bunny, originally in the short film A Wild Hare (1940), and is now also sometimes used with punning allusion to other senses of doctor n.
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1870 O. Logan Before Footlights xxviii. 370 He is talking to a big fellow..whom he calls ‘Doctor’... ‘Well, Doc, I had the poorest show on the road last season, but I made stacks of money.’
1907 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Aug. 196/2 Say, doc,..that's a hot bird you keep on tap.
1935 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 6 July (Comics section) (caption) ‘What's up, doc?’ ‘Something on my leg! A stingaree! Help!’
1945 Renwick (Iowa) Times 11 Jan. What's up, Doc?—The newest way to say, ‘What's new?’
1953 W. R. Manchester City of Anger iii. 273 Keep your shirt on, doc.
1972 C. Jones in Esquire Mar. 66/2 There was a young animator there—Herman Cohen; he was from Texas, I think—and he had this expression he used, no matter what the situation, he'd come over and say, ‘What's up, Doc?’. It became a common phrase around our unit, and Tex [Avery] gave it to Bugs Bunny.
2015 K. McCafferty Crazy Mountain Kiss (2016) i. iv. 23 In the passenger seat..sat Georgeanne Wilkerson. She was eating a carrot. ‘What's up, doc?’ she said brightly.
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