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date noun- a person with whom an appointment or romantic engagement is made US, 1925
From the conventional sense that defines the appointment. - How does my date tackle that gap? Does he kiss me? Does he envelop me in his arms? — The Guardian, 19 July 2003
- a prostitute’s customer US
- This John is a real honest-to-goodness hundred-dollar date, the way it used to be during the war. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 181, 1961
- I understand that a lot of girls get customers or Johns or dates or whatever you want to call them who are perverted in one way or the other. — John Warren Wells, Tricks of the Trade, p. 38, 1970
- I put her to work on the same edge on Hastings Street and fixed it where she could take her dates to a pal’s pad to turn em. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 88, 1973
- Since each girl usually had between five and twenty dates a day, the average would be about twelve. — Jan Hutson, The Chicken Ranch, p. 83, 1980
- They told him that he was her first date of the night, but her cunt seemed to be full of something viscous like come or corn syrup. — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 15, 1991
- a sexual liaison between a prostitute and a customer US, 1957 An ironic euphemism.
- The men involved on these “dates” were always Chinese. — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, p. 38, 1961
- She was hooking when I met her. So I didn’t go for that at all. ’Cause I never made it with a hooker before. So one night she had a date, so she told me to come back late, in an hour or something like that. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 56, 1966
- The polite form is to have a date, to turn a date, or dating. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 38, 1972
- But there were no $5 dates in my house. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 78, 1972
- You want a date, honey? — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 111, 1974
- Since each girl usually had between five and twenty dates a day, the average would be about twelve. — Jan Hutson, The Chicken Ranch, p. 83, 1980
- She said doll you want a date? — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 12, 1991
- Oliver had assured her that she was his top bitch but demanded to know why she couldn’t catch as many dates as Alice, his bottom bitch. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 67, 1996
- a prisoner’s expected date of release from prison US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 30, 1989
- a foolish or silly person UK, 1914 Especially in the phrase “soppy date”; later use is generally affectionate.
- the anus; the buttocks AUSTRALIA, 1919
First recorded in Australia in 1919 as “a word signifying contempt”. Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, 1999, makes an unsubstantiated claim on coinage around 1940. However, a case for a piece of rhyming slang always reduced to its first element, DATE AND PLUM, BUMFresh Rabbit, 1998, with the following illustration: WIFE: The dog’s been full of mischief today. HUSBAND: Yeah? Well, his date’ll be full of my boot if he keeps on. - [D]ue to its resmblance in appearance to a date fruit. — Thommo The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, 1985
- [I]t’s a dead-set short cut to a fat ear, a thick lip and a full load of number 12s up the date. — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 27, 1992
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