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"etymology_text": "From the practice of ice hockey players of removing their heavy gloves before striking blows in fistfights.",
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"ref": "2000 January 30, Thomas DeFrank et al., “George W. & Al Bank on Bubba”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2008-10-14",
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