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john
noun- a prostitute’s client US, 1906
From the sense as “generic man”, probably via the criminal use as “dupe” or “victim”. - The johns lined up for Marcelle like it was payday. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 23, 1946
- Always build a John up. If he has any sort of body at all, say, “Please, don’t ever hurt me.” A John is different from a sucker. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 30, 1953
- Our hustlers sat on their steps and called to the “Johns” as they passed by — Louis Amstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, p. 95, 1954
- If I don’t let a white john with money come here, I must have good reasons. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 80, 1959
- Freddie had done less shoeshining and towel-hustling than selling liquor and reefers, and putting white “Johns” in touch with Negro whores. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 49, 1964
- I know who you are. You’re a John. I don’t know why I like you. — Easy Rider, 1969
- So you take a call and you go to a hotel room and there’s some John you’ve never seen before, but he wants you. — Klute, 1971
- A ponce might say to a prostitute: “Don’t you treat me like a john or I’ll mark your face.” — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- Russell recognised some of the pavement princesses, whose pitch this normally was [...] livid at missing their regular johns and champagne tricks on their way back from the City. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 203, 1997
- Juan aimed his camera at the coupled couple, not recognising the john[.] — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 215, 1999
- a police officer AUSTRALIA, 1898
An abbreviation of John Darm, an obsolete pun on French gendarme (a police officer) which appears in several variations in the US from 1858, or an abbreviated form of the older John Hop, rhyming with COP. - There’s Harmon. Ask him. He’s the john, not me. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 157, 1959
- As I say, we dug until almost morning, in a cold sweat of fear, not before the johns were after us, which had happened before and would happen again, but because of the offense with which we would be charged. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 356, 1961
- [T]he snag is that he’s expecting a john any day now[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 42, 1962
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 73, 1998
- in a deck of playing cards, a jack or knave US
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 266, 1967
- a toilet US, 1942
- And when I went to see Tristano I overheard some of the cats discussing him in the john. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsburg, p. 141, 2 January 1948
- Several times I went to San Fran with my gun and when a queer approached me in a bar john I took out the gun and said, “Eh? Eh? What’s that you say?” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 73, 1957
- Oh, I mean I want to go to the john. — Sue Rhodes, And when she was bad she was popular, p. 117, 1968
- [S]he had said, Wait a minute, and got up and went to the john to piss and came back and got in the same position again. — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 79, 1969
- I stop off by my room and while sitting on the john start reading an article in Newsweek[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 239, 1977
- He pulled up his pants, flushed the john, and stretched out on a steel cot. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 14, 2000
- a condom UK
A shortened form of JOHNNY - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- a lieutenant US, 1937
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 28, 1968
- This had disabused Mr. Ripley of the notion that, for some inexplicable reason, the Raiders had turned their armory over to a baby-faced candy-ass second john fresh from Quantico. — W.E.B. Griffin, The Corps Book II, p. 300, 1987
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 81, 1991
- a plainclothes police officer US
- Any of us slum children could smell out a cop even though he was a John, a plain-clothes man. — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 16, 1951
- heroin US
- They called it “girl” or “Jane” or “Missy” in feminine contrast to “boy” or “John” or “Mister” for king heroin. — David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner, p. 62, 1997
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