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Thread #29139   Message #366369
Posted By: WyoWoman
31-Dec-00 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: Where did 'ROUNDER' come from?
Subject: Where did 'ROUNDER' come from?
I mentioned to a friend the other day that someone was a 'rounder,' meaning a rowdy, hard-drinking, hard-timing son of a gun. He asked me where the term came from, and what exactly it meant and I could only fake a definition. Have no idea where the term came from, just that I've heard it in lots of songs (The line from Emmylou Harris 'Get up rounder, let a working girl sit down ...' keeps running around my brain).

Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller?

tx/ww