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Word: flumped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Suicide Time | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...Flump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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