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Old 03-30-2020, 11:11 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
Urban Dictionary.
The whole phrase is a quote from Austin Powers.

How's-yer-father can be used as a thingumajig doohicky kind of a euphemism, and one of the things about AP was he used outdated slang which had come to take on more dubious meaning...

I found one source saying originally it was rhyming slang for lather which would work in this context, but I'm not sure about that
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