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coyote ugly
adjective
very ugly US, 1985
The conceit of the term is that a man who wakes up with a “coyote ugly” woman sleeping on his arm will, like a coyote caught in a trap, gnaw off his arm to escape.- In an interview, [Judge Bernard] Avellino said the victim “was the ugliest girl I have ever seen in my entire life ... in the top 10.” Avellino was also quoted as calling the vicitm “coyote ugly.” — Los Angeles Times, p. 2, 5 February 1986
- — Philadelphia Inquirer, p. A1, 27 January 1986
- [A] judge chastised a defendant accused in an attempted rape case for having picked an “unattractive girl” and later, in a subsequent interview, described the victim as “coyote ugly,” society is again sent a clear message. — Laura A. Otten, Women’s Rights and the Law, p. 9, 1993
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