angelina n.
1. (camp gay, also angelino) a young gay man, the partner of an older one.
![]() | Milk and Honey Route 199: Angelina – Punk or road kid acting as a hobo’s companion. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | From Here to Eternity (1998) 422: Thats what Chief Bugler Houston was – a regular Mister Brown. Thats one reason I got out of the Corps, him and that Angelina of his. | |
![]() | Madball (2019) 152: ‘No more half-wit angelinos for me. Get out’. | |
![]() | (con. 1950-1960) Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 3: Angelina – a punk or road-kid; the “sod” part of sod-buster; a homo, etc . | |
![]() | Crime in S. Afr. 106: an ‘Angelina’, a ‘chicken’, or a ‘lamb’ is a boy who travels around with an older tramp for homosexual purposes. | |
![]() | (ref. to 1940s) Queens’ Vernacular 72: stereotype effeminate homosexual [...] Angelina (’40s). |
2. an effeminate person, a weakling.
![]() | From Here to Eternity (1998) 123: You’re gonna find your ass busted back to private and do a little straight duty. Which would probably kill a college angelina like you. |
In compounds
(camp gay) the world of young gay men.
![]() | (ref. to 1940s) Queens’ Vernacular 21: Angelina sorority (’40s) the young homosexual’s world. |