To: Red Badger
Read the second paragraph.
9 posted on
01/18/2024 6:13:15 PM PST by
Right Brother
(Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
To: Right Brother
It’s British. Maybe they have a different meaning for that word...................
12 posted on
01/18/2024 6:15:03 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Right Brother
Yep, I looked it up, the informal British use is: To prevent something from happening.................
15 posted on
01/18/2024 6:18:14 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Right Brother
ORIGIN OF SCUPPER
First recorded in 1880–85; originally British military slang “to massacre, slaughter”; further origin uncertain
17 posted on
01/18/2024 6:20:57 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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