cootie
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Many of these are visual: The sorting hat is depicted as an enormous cootie catcher, while butterbeer is represented by beer bottles with Land O’Lakes labels tacked onto them.
From Slate • May 17, 2018
Lice dancing: Shake, shake, shake, shake your cootie .
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015
During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But to millions of Germans today as to other millions in many of history's wars, the cootie means horror and death in the form of typhus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The so-called cootie garages, which Anne and Ernestine now detested, had been the style several years before, and still were worn by girls who hadn’t bobbed their hair.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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