Nah, Robin, I made it all up!
Or am too dusty headed to remember!
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>> 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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