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I can’t work the lobster shift ’cause I’m allergic. Dear Word Detective: What is the origin of calling a shift of work a “trick”? I grew up in a railroad town and always heard “trick,” but never heard a reason why we called them that. — Rich Hileman. That’s an interesting question. Actually it’s two interesting questions, because you defined “trick” in terms of being synonymous with “shift,” another somewhat odd term for a period of time someone is scheduled to work. I remember that the first time I ever heard “shift” used in that sense I was quite young, and assumed that it had something to do with the gearshift on a car, perhaps in reference to driving to work. This was, I should add, at a time when automatic transmissions were not the default on cars. I actually learned to drive on a 1968 Pontiac GTO with a four-speed transmission. I had no idea at the time that I was driving what would eventually be considered the quintessential American “muscle car.” I was just trying to avoid trees and crossing guards, not an easy task as I was learning on icy roads in the dead of a New England winter. “Shift” first appeared as a verb in Old English (as “sciftan”) from Germanic roots with the basic sense of “to divide” or “to arrange.” In English the verb “to shift” originally meant “to put in order; to arrange,” but also “to apportion; to divide up.” It wasn’t until the 14th century that “to shift” developed the meanings “to change” or “to move” that underlie most senses of the verb...

In cartoons, you often see characters like Scrooge McDuck with a coin where they have drilled a hole in the middle and attached a string, enabling them to insert the coin multiple times and keep pulling it out from the machine repeatedly, tricking the machine into believing that many different coins have been inserted. Is or was this actually ever possible? I was too honest and scared to ever try this as a kid, although I did think about it many times. If I had the resources, I would probably at least have tried it once, just to see if it would work. Maybe they had predicted this and implemented some kind of scissors auto-cutting above the coin every time it registers a new coin? Or maybe the coin moves in such a way that any string would get stuck or not be able to pull it back up again? If this was actually possible, did some people actually do it? I almost never got to play on the arcade games, because I had so little money, so it would've been a game changer (literally) to me. On the other hand, doing it on slot machines and other gambling devices seems very illegal, since you'd actually be robbing the one-armed bandits! While this normally didn't work because of the latching occipita mentioned one thing that did work with a lot of old arcade / vending machines was discharging static onto the coin slot. They were all metal and I guess the low-voltage switches didn't have enough dielectric strength to withstand it so it'd trigger a credit. @another-dave The dangling per...

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