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1930 G. WilliamsLogger-talk 25Idiot stick, a shovel.
1992 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 1 Feb. c1 Coaching beats hell out of the graveyard shift on an idiot stick on Interstate 29. ‘When you shovel gravel on road construction [etc.]’.