Boston cager, for short
The crossword clue "Boston cager, for short" is answered by CELT, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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