re: #127 Dr Lizardo

Could be. It’s not very commonplace now, that’s for sure. It’s pretty much obsolete slang. I can’t even remember now if the film version of L.A. Confidential used it or not, despite its early ’50s setting; I know the book used it.

I actually still use it occasionally. Back in Texas no one ever had to ask me what it meant, but here on the East Coast sometimes people are like, “Wut?”

My boss laughs at me when I say I’m “fixin’ to ________.” I’ve used that all my life, never realizing till I got up here that not everyone says they’re fixin’ to go the store or cook dinner or whatever.

Urban dictionary nails it: urbandictionary.com