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doctor noun- (used of children) the exploration of each other’s genitals US
- We played doctor in the woods. — Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, p. 23, 1966
- One day, the other female member and I were asked to play “Doctor” by the club’s other members. — Screw, p. 7, 15 December 1969
- During all those school years we children had been playing “doctor” by sticking popsicles in our underpants. — Jefferson Poland and Valerie Alison, The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, p. 111, 1971
- We never played doctor–and yet, I had played this rather terrifying game with other boys and Fonny had certainly played with other girls, and boys. — James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk, p. 55, 1974
- We didn’t play “house” or “Doctor” or any of that. We had sexual intercourse — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 136, 1987
- a male with a large penis US Homosexual usage.
- — Roger Blake, The American Dictionary of Sexual Terms, p. 60, 1964
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 59, 1967
- an expert US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Spring 1990
- a bookmaker who declines to take a bet, telling the bettor he will “get better” AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 23, 1989
- a person who sells illegally manufactured alcohol US, 1960
- — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II, p. 99, 1991
- MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy UK, 1998
Possibly punning on the degrees MD and MA. - — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 289, 2003
- (especially in Western Australia) a refreshing wind coming after a period of stifling weather AUSTRALIA, 1870
Preceded by a placename to form proper nouns for commonly occurring winds of this type, such as the Albany Doctor, Esperance Doctor, Fremantle Doctor, etc. - We used to hear it coming through the bush at Norseman and say, “Here comes the Esperance Doctor”. — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
▶ go for the doctor to race a horse at top speed AUSTRALIA- Don’t make a forward move until the half mile, then take it steady, go for the doctor after the turn into the striaght. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 166, 1969
- There was only one thing to do–go for the doctor and make Knox chase him. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 153, 1982
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