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Her Life as an American Madam choose

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[US] (ref. to 1868) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 89: A guest could [...] have his joint copped, or be blown.
at cop a joint (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 237: Some of the lavender group used to come to my house; those were the bi-sexual ones. Later the joke was they were AC and DC like the electric currents.
at AC/DC, adj.
[US] (ref. late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 89: These items of sexual life had various names over the years. [...] The act was most popularly known as Frenching, but it was hardly a French speciality. If mutually played, it was 69 or fork and spoon.
at fork and spoon, n.1
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 107: We saw their nasty little habits, gestures of loneliness, no doubt. My, how blue and dragass a millionaire [...] can be with a twenty dollar whore at two in the morning.
at drag-ass, adj.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 241: He’d take his favourite bit of ass upstairs.
at ass, n.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 92: When I came to, Frenchy, bare-assed as a jaybird, was pouring brandy down my throat.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 185: His attitude was ass-backwards.
at ass-backwards under ass, n.
[US] (ref. to 1898) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 285: Now I’m going to turn you over to one of my girls. She’ll see you get the whole bag of tricks, the bath, the dress, the face colouring.
at bag of tricks (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 13: I was bang-up proud of the place.
at bang up, adv.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 111: A bang-out hog wallow of a night like that was for only a few guests who were special.
at bang-up, adj.
[US] N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 310: I don’t know much about people who hurt other people for sex bangs.
at bang, n.1
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 137: A bored wife who no longer saw anything in banging but habit and duty.
at banging, n.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 107: A banging shop life is as dull as a sailor’s [...] most of the time.
at banging-shop, n.
[US] (ref. to 1898) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 261: Old Sugar Mary said I lost trade by not going in for the sissy byplay.
at bi, adj.
[US] (ref. to mid-19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 36: The two women infected a lot of the farm boys and hired hands with Little Casino (clap) and Big Casino (syphilis).
at big casino, n.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 177: He had lived in England and sometimes called a girl a bint.
at bint, n.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 135: I knew a snowbird when I saw one.
at snow bird, n.2
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 204: The Greek contractor wanted me to blow him in the bundle room.
at blow, v.2
[US] (ref. to 1898) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 309: I suggested [...] that they drop all the fancy science talk and talk about screwing, blowing and buggering at home.
at blowing (n.) under blow, v.2
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 325: I still kept out voodoo and the faggot and lesbian acts and the blue movie stuff.
at blue, adj.3
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 88: A cathouse was usually called by its madam’s name [...] It was dangerous to become too fancy or too famous; the bluenoses sniffed those out.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] (ref. to mid-19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 42: I saw little boobies and a very narrow waist but swelling hips.
at booby, n.2
[US] N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 161: ‘Someone has put a watcher on me?’ ‘That’s right. There are detectives making book on you.’.
at make book (on) (v.) under book, n.
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 233: Kate Townsend, a famous madam who was usually bottled.
at bottled, adj.2
[US] N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 173: Every respectable city or town has a knowing, greedy set of police officers, political boyos – boyos is Irish for bold lads – who demand a cut.
at boyo, n.
[US] (con. late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 206: The rube is so bug-eyed looking at the tits, he don’t care where he throws down the circles.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] (ref. to 1868) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 50: There was talk of [...] bushwackers that would kill and rape.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[US] N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 118: A big buster of a piano.
at buster, n.1
[US] (ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 214: Pimps, cadets (girl hunters) went into the sticks, the small towns, and made promises of easy jobs to country girls.
at cadet, n.
[US] (ref. to 1898) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 259: The wrong crowd hung out there – lags and pete men, paper kiters, carny grifters.
at carney, adj.
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