Citations:hey mister

English citations of hey mister

to solicit alcohol as a minor

• 2014, Tony Dokoupil, The last pirate: a father, his son, and the golden age of marijuana‎^[1], page 129:

  My father and his buddies bought home-made wine from a spinster and hey-mistered their way into pints of Schaefer beer.

• 2016, Gail B. Stewart, quoting Darla, Teens and Drinking‎^[2], page 53:

  I’ve heard people call it ‘Hey Mistering,’ and it’s really common. It is a little bit of a risk for the person doing the buying, since it’s against the law to buy booze for minors, but most of the time the people you ask are cool with it. I mean, they probably Hey Mistered themselves when they were younger, right?

• 2017, Allyson M. Nobles, Late Bloomer‎^[3], thesis submitted to University of New Orleans:

  Underage trumpeter’s frustration, holds his warm tall boy in a soggy paper bag he had to “hey mister” from a homeless man

• 2018, Vera Heidmann, The Middle of Fucking Nowhere‎^[4], thesis submitted to Linfifield University, page 13:

  And when you drive into town, you notice the burnouts dealing in the middle of the street; the high school kids hey-mistering and drinking beer with strangers in the Safeway parking lot.

• 2019, Kate Wisel, Driving in Cars with Homeless Men‎^[5], →ISBN:

  Outside the packie where they first learned to Hey Mister

other uses

• 1982, The Illustrated Weekly of India‎^[6], volume 103:

  I was at a loose end on my first night in Calcutta alone and in need of company, but not the company of hookers who giggled and Hey Mistered at street corners under road lights.

• 1992, Dan Richardson, Karen O'Brien, The real guide: Egypt‎^[7], page 116:

  Heading south along this narrow street, full of commerce and capering children, you'll be “hey mistered” past a succession of tombs.