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

BROTHEL

boom-boom house; boom-boom parlor noun,
US, 1966
• — American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) 9th
January 1966

chicken ranch noun, US, 1973
a rural brothel
Originally the name of a brothel in LaGrange,
Texas, and then spread to more generic use.
• Hey, you don’t make a thousand bucks tax-
free by staying in bed unless you’re working
at one of those chicken ranches in Nevada.
—Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights 1992

creep house noun, US, 1913
a brothel where customers are routinely robbed
• Warnings of immorality were probably less
effective than warnings that some brothels
were creep houses or panel houses wherein
visitors were robbed of money and gold
watches. —Irving Lewis Allen, The City in
Slang 1993

grind joint noun, US, 1962
• It’s the snazziest grind joint you ever heard
of. And if you happen to catch clap from
one of the broads over there, you don’t
have to worry because it’s a higher class of
clap. —Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young
Man Drowning 1962

sugar hill noun, US, 1987
• — Maledicta Summer/Winter, 1986–1987:
‘Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles,
flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles’

PROSTITUTE’S CUSTOMER

baby noun, US, 1957
• Still and all, she had a small minute of
indecision when he brought the first
hundred-dollar baby to his apartment to
meet her. —John M. Murtagh and Sara
Harris, Cast the First Stone 1957

freak trick noun, US, 1971
a prostitute’s customer who pays for unusual
sex
• —Eugene Landy, The Underground
Dictionary 1971

geek noun, US, 1993
a prostitute’s customer with fetishistic desires
• — Washington Post 7th November 1993

john noun, US, 1906
From the sense as ‘generic man’, probably via
the criminal use as ‘dupe’ or ‘victim’.
• Russell recognised some of the pavement
princesses, whose pitch this normally was
[...] livid at missing their regular johns and
champagne tricks on their way back from
the City. —Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers
1997

lover noun, US, 1971
• A “lover” is a customer who is determined
to arouse the prostitute or to get her to
respond to him. —Charles Winick, The
Lively Commerce 1971

seventy-eight; 78 noun, US, 1971
a prostitute’s customer who is quickly satisfied
From early vinyl records that were played on a
turntable revolving 78 times per minute.
• A customer who worked quickly was called
a “78” and one with a slower response was
a “33.” —Charles Winick, The Lively
Commerce 1971

trick noun, US, 1925
• They had to keep an eye on the cops all the
time, because they weren’t allow to call the
tricks like the girls in Storyville. —Louis
Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
1954

S&M WORDS

bottom noun, US, 1961
the submissive partner in a homosexual or sado-
masochistic relationship
• Boots could take either the top or the
bottom, without the least show of emotion.
—Donald Goines, Whoreson 1972

dump verb, US, 1957
to derive sexual pleasure from sadistic acts
• Tricks pay a hundred dollars to dump girls.
Sometimes more. I’d never take a dumping
myself for less than a hundred. —John M.
Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First
Stone 1957

heavy scene noun, US, 1979
sado-masochistic sex
• During one of his periodic excursions to
other cities in search of new “heavy
scenes” – and his reputation as a top-man
precedes his forays – Chas was asked to
play an auctioneer at a simulated “slave
auction[.]” —John Rechy, Rushes 1979

lasting mark noun, US, 1987
a welt or bruise produced in sadomasochistic
sex
• If a man says “no lasting marks” he is put
through a gradual build-up of increasingly
painful procedures. —Frederique Delacoste,
Sex Work 1987

rough trade noun, US, 1927
a tough, often sadistic male homosexual,
especially as a casual sex-partner
• I had an address book a mile long, packed
with tricks from “drag queens” to rough
trade, old aunties, little nellie queens that
stayed home with mother. —Antony James,
America’s Homosexual Underground 1965

Sadie Masie noun, US, 1965
sado-masochism
• A side trip to the “S. & M.” (sado-
masochistic) or “Sadie-Maisie” homosexual
bars —G. Legman, The Fake Revolt 1967

SEMEN

baby batter noun, US, 1997
• [I]t’s because you ain’t got the baby batter
in your brain any more. — Something About
Mary 1998

creampie noun, US, 2002
semen seeping from a vagina, anus or mouth
• Creampie vids mean to correct this by
showing sex as it actually happens, plus
bodily fluids getting licked off the floor.
— Village Voice 23rd April 2002

felching noun, US, 1981
the act of sucking semen from another’s rectum
• [A]cts such as “felching.” —Noretta
Koertge, The Nature and Causes of
Homosexuality 1981

funk noun, US, 1976
semen; smegma
• They had fried shit choplets and hot funk
custard/ Drank spit out of cocktail glasses
and used afterbirth for mustard. — Dennis
Wepman et al., The Life 1976

Irish confetti noun, US, 1987
semen spilled on a woman’s body
• — Maledicta 1986–1987: ‘A continuation of
a glossary of ethnic slurs in American
English’

jazz noun, US, 1932
• Momo wipes the jazz off Jasmin. — Anthony
Petkovich, The X Factory 1997

jizz verb, US, 1983
to ejaculate
• Then, I want you to flick at my nuts while
your friend spanks me into the same Dixie
cup Silent Bob jizzed in. —Kevin Smith,
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001

joy juice noun, US, 1969
• He wanted her ass to be good and strong
and filled to the brim with the joy juice of
the men she’d had that day, and the more
the merrier. —A.S. Jackson, Gentleman
Pimp 1973