Sources:
The evidence keeps piling up: e-cigarettes are definitely safer than smoking. (The Guardian, 12/27/2017)
Liquid Nicotine Used in E-Cigarettes Can Kill Children. (Healthy Children, 9/9/2019)
Gasping for Action: Lab tests reveal popular e-cigarette liquids contain harmful chemicals. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/18/2019)
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of (the) skinny, as a noun meaning "inside information" occurred in 1938.
Other coinages from the same year include:
- balding
- blimpish
- deglamorize
- overglamorize
- socko
- starstruck
- unglamorize
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