“21” or “Twenty-one” (limeade)

 
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10 June 1929, Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, “Pittsburghesque” by Charles F. Danver, pg. 8, col. 6:
The Soda Jerkers’ Code.
The young bartenders in one of those big soda emporiums downtown have a secret code. They use it in relaying orders behind the bar.
(...)
“Twenty-one!” (Limeade.)
 
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9 February 1930, Tampa (FL) Sunday Tribune, “Soda Jerkers Here Talk in Language Hard to Understand,” pt. 4, pg. 6, col. 2:
21—Limeade.
 
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10 July 1985, The Times-Mail (Bedford, IN), “Soda jerk unique on American scene” by Ink Mendelsohn, pg. 5, col. 5:
TWENTY-ONE—limeade