ADDRESS, ADDRESS BOOK
NOUNS
► ADDY address → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► BACKING the address or return address on an envelope or letter; the act of writing an address → 1871 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BURMA written on an envelope, or at the foot of a lover’s letter as lover’s code for ‘Be Undressed (or Upstairs) and Ready My Angel) → 1960 UK sl.
► SCORE-CARD an address book → 1970 US homosexual sl.
VERBS
► BACK to address an envelope or letter → Sc. & Amer. dial.
► DEDICATE to address a letter or other communication to → 1688 obs.
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