"'Jeet?' meaning 'Did you eat?' -- in J.D. Salinger's "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (New Yorker, June 5 1948)
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@HeerJeet ancient American usage! New York variant: "Jeet?" "No, Jew?" - End of conversation
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I loved his gag about twitter essays in Catcher.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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