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Quality

Worthless, at least in Newton (and in particular, West Newton). "My friends and parents still use it today,'' says Lucia Kegan. "If you had some piece-of-shit bike some mean kid might say 'quality bike' or if some guy got all loaded on malt liquor and threw up you would call him a 'quality kid.' ''

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In college I had a friend from NY who said this all the time.

Mel on June 18, 2004 01:45 PM.

This is an example of "opposite meaning" which seems to be a New England peculiarity. e.g.: The old timers used to say "quite a little". When I moved to California, I found out that not everybody gets this sort of thing...

J Sharkey on January 7, 2008 03:47 PM.

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