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pudding club

noun

  1. slang,  the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club )

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Even the working classes preferred euphemisms, though theirs were decidedly better: “in the pudding club,” or “up the duff.”

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Last year, the university considered banning exclusive clubs outright — including the Hasty Pudding Club, a social organization affiliated with the Theatricals — but decided late in 2017 to continue its policy of sanctions instead.

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At Harvard, he quickly rose to become president of the Hasty Pudding Club, a famed theatrical club where he shared sketches and dance numbers with two future politicians, Charlie Baker, the current Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Deval Patrick, a former Democratic governor.

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His obituary might well have ended there if Mr. Beck, a veteran of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club’s burlesque theatricals, had not borrowed a page from the Cold War satire “The Mouse That Roared” to score an unconventional diplomatic coup: For a decade he was the ambassador to the United Nations from the remote Western Pacific island nation of Palau.

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After leaving New York at 8:03 a.m. by train, Mr. Harris is up at Harvard as the Hasty Pudding Club’s man of the year.

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