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Coney Island whitefish
noun
a used condom US
The most prominent use of the term is probably in the title of the 1979 Aerosmith song “Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy).”- Abrams spotted a flaccid rubber sheath that in his youth had been called a Coney Island whitefish. — Nelson DeMille, The Talbot Odyssey, p. 346, 1984
- Coney Island also gave its name, probably in the 1930s, to the Coney-Island whitefish, a used condom floating in the water at the bathing beach–a common sight then and now. — Irving Lewis Allen, The City in Slang, p. 102, 1993
- I recall how surfers objected to sharing their waves with the schools of “Coney Island whitefish,” the name we gave used condoms that drifted east, along Long Island’s South Shore, from the city sewer system. — Russell Drumm, In the Slick of the Cricket, p. 212, 1997
- — Samuel M. Katz, Anytime Anywhere, p. 386, 1997
- In Brooklyn, in what many people have been taught by crack journalists to call “a more innocent time,” floating condoms were often called “Coney Island whitefish.” — Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino, p. 35, 2002
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