Word: cribbed
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...MINNIE lights her T. D. pipe, and they go out arm in arm, discussing the good old times when the students weren't put on their honor, and could crib through an examination...
...shall slump and dead in spite of crib and cram...
...Semis all the proctors are on hand the crib to spot...
...author opens with remarks about the word pony. At Cornell the word has a different meaning from that which it bears nearly everywhere else, being used to signify a crib, or other unlawful aid used at examinations or recitations. At Bowdoin a crib is known as a fakir, and at Yale it is a skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates...
...This "crib" holds many a date...