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All of those were used in headlines at my first newspaper. SE was easily 30 years my senior so pretty sure he started in newspapers in the late 60s/early 70s. Half the stuff he wrote in heds I didn't know as words until working there.Thinclads was one of those old terms, mostly for high school or college publications where every team is the Eagles, etc. Also, grapplers, cagers, gridders, tankers, leatherlungs, netters, spikers, diamondmen .....
"Hey, it's Joe in composing. You're an inch short on that story down the right side of C6. I'm going to stick in a thinclad dingbat."I've never heard of "thin clads" but I loved me some harriers references for cross-country teams back in the day. No forking idea what it meant or where it came from but I loved throwing that on a header.
C'mon … that's what high school team logos are for!"Hey, it's Joe in composing. You're an inch short on that story down the right side of C6. I'm going to stick in a thinclad dingbat."
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"Oh, no, you're not. I'll be right down."
For awhile, I put a moratorium on stated, opined, remarked, smiled, etc.
There was, and is, nothing wrong with said.