Does anybody know the slang word "gatso" ?

[jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Bob and Debbie Milka <aus4usn98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Please write to me and tell me what you know of it and possibly it's
> origin. In America it used to mean a gun, way back in the '30's.

    In the UK (and a lot of the rest of Europe) it's the common name for 
a particularly insidious law-enforcement device, the automatic speed
camera.  It is derived from the name of the inventor, Maurice
Gatsonides.

                Jim
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