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Mary noun- an Australian Aboriginal, Papuan or Islander woman AUSTRALIA, 1830
- [S]omeone told him there was some Fuzzies along there with the Yanks, and Lucky went to see if he could get a Mary. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 147, 1954
- Have to get a Mary to come too, though. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 126, 1963
- any woman of Indian descent SOUTH AFRICA, 1927
Offensive, though not originally intended to be so. - — Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English, 1978
- any black woman, especially a domestic worker; any nonwhite woman SOUTH AFRICA, 1952
Offensive, demeaning; from the previous sense. - — Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English, 1978
- used as a term of address from one male homosexual to another US, 1925
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 265, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- “Oh, Mary, get off it!” the fatman says impatiently with a fatwave of his hand[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 166, 1963
- Oh! That whore! Mary, everybody’s had him. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 34, 1965
- “Sure, there’s a party. Now, Mary, you wouldn’t want to miss it.” — Joe Houston, The Gay Flesh, p. 61, 1965
- Well get her, Mary! — Kenneth Marlowe, The Gay World of Kenneth Marlowe, p. 41, 1966
- Oh, Mary, don’t ask. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 42, 1968
- a homosexual man who is a Catholic UK
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 180, 2002
- marijuana US, 1952
Simply being on first name terms with MARY JANE, MARY WARNER - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 332, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 288, 2003
- morphine US
- More specifically, it was classified as M, C, and H–Mary, Charlie, and Harry–which stood for morphine, cocaine, and heroin. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, 1945
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