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limp wrist
noun
an effeminate man, almost always homosexual; used as a symbol of homosexuality US, 1950- Manifestations of this are seen in the number of jokes about the limp wrist set, and the occasional reports of homosexuals. — Berkshire (Massachusetts) EVening Eagle, 18 September 1950
- “[A]t the same time depriving him of cunt and subjecting him to homosex stimulation. Then drugs, hypnosis, and–” Benway flipped a limp wrist. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 27, 1957
- — Fact, p. 26, January-February 1965
- Four went to me and a limp-wrist friend / And the fifth went to his main girl. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 62, 1976
- I reminded her that Boke Kellum was a limp wrist. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 172, 1979
- Comedian Chevy Chase says he was only kidding when he limp wristedly referred to Cary Grant as a “homo” and “what a gal” on a TV talk show[.] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 11, 1 September 1982
- He looked like a peroxided limpwrist from Santa Monica Boulevard is what he looked like. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, p. 130, 1983
- Nervous tittering turned to robust laughter the other night at Nick’s as Greg Roman showed his audience that openly gay comics can be funny without campy props, limp wrists and Judy Garland imitations. — Boston Globe, p. 51, 22 June 1993
- Don’t you think there are more homos who don’t go to bars than those who do? I think that’s just a stereotype, like limp wrists or having superb fashion sense. — Phoenix (Arizona) New Times, 4 December 2003
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