Re: nit-pick

"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=417922

Hmmm, this site traces "souped up" even further back than Merriam-Webster 
does, to 1921 (with "soup" as euphemism for performance-enhancing 
racehorse drug going back even further, to 1911).

No one at that site seems to know when or where "suped up" came along.

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