SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

big casino noun, US, 1948
• Nitti, like Capone, had picked up in his
travels the occupational malady of the
underworld, euphemistically known as the
capital prize, or big casino. — San Francisco
Call-Bulletin 23rd February 1948

blue balls noun, US, 1912
• —Roger Blake, The American Dictionary of
Sexual Terms 1964

canoe inspection noun, US, 1964
a medical inspection of a woman’s genitals for
signs of a sexually transmitted disease
• —Robert A. Wilson, Playboy’s Book of
Forbidden Words 1972

package noun, US, 1950
a sexually transmitted infection, especially
gonorrhea
• —Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of
American Underworld Lingo 1950

short-arm inspection; small-arm inspection
noun, UK, 1919
an inspection for a sexually transmitted infection
Soldiers or prisoners are lined up, each holding
his penis. At the command ‘Skin it back and
milk it down’, each man ‘milks’ down his penis
from the base to the tip so that the inspecting
doctor can check for pus at the tip of the
urethra.
• There was a crowd in the kitchen, a mob in
the hall / A short-arm inspection by the
shithouse wall. — Dennis Wepman et al.,
The Life 1976