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Old 06-21-2003, 10:38 PM
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#5362~The Japanese language gave us the word "honcho," for big shot or boss. Hancho means "squad commander" in Japanese. American flyers picked up the term during the American occupation of Japan following WWII and started using it to mean top boss.
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