blue-light (clinic) n.
(Aus.) a venereal disease clinic, thus blue-light outfit, a portable kit for personal treatment.
![]() | in | Austral. Army Med. Services 1914-1918 (1943) III 158: ‘Early Treatment’ Depots have been designated ‘Blue Light Depots’. At night a blue light shows their position in every unit lines, and at Administrative Headquarters, London. No names or questions regarding identity are asked [Simes:DLSS].|
![]() | Digger Dialects 12: Blue-Light—A prophylactic establishment. | |
![]() | Two Years Paris (1923) 20: The English, Australian and New Zealand Y.M.C.A. have agreed among themselves that vice must be kept dangerous. They have tried to have closed the Blue-Light Rooms [ibid.] 23: You had far better carry a blue-light outfit with you as a ‘town dressing’, in the same way as you would carry a ‘field-dressing’. | |
![]() | (con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: blue light. A prophylactic establishment. | |
![]() | We Were the Rats 85: I asked Eddie what the blue light on a tent behind the C.R.S. was for. [...] ‘That’s the blue light joint. On ya way back from leave ya go there. That’s if ya been doin’ the wrong thing. Haven’t ya seen them blue light outfits? They stop ya getting’ what ya shoulden get’. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Sowers of the Wind 28: We don’t want to get jacked-up, that’s what [...] We got no blue-light outfit with us [Ibid.] 198: ‘She’s clean, I suppose?’ ‘Yes. After the first time I didn’t go to the blue light. Nothing happened, or since’. | |
![]() | What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] I got the jack years ago and had to go to the VD clinic [...] the old blue light. | ‘Who’s Jack of Robbo?’ in|
![]() | 🌐 Mama always said: some men weren’t worth pleasing. And a man with stock in the blue-light clinic was one of them. | at www.asstr.org