> Out here in the savage west, a 'dust-up' is the way one politely refers to
> a
> serious confrontation. When someone gets shot, that is killed, they been
> 'dusted.'
That's interesting, Stephen. John Brunner uses "dusted" in that way in the
SF novel _The Shockwave Rider_. I'd always assumed (Brunner is a Brit) that
it was a term he'd coined, *from "dust up", etc., but maybe he had the sense
you draw attention to there in mind.
R.
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