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square John
noun
a decent and law-abiding, if naive, person US, 1934- I clipped a dance moll for a swab, it paid a trey or a fin / but an old squarejohn seen the play come off and he run and told the men. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 85, 1965
- He works longer than “square Johns” who put in their eight hours each day. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, p. 23, 1966
- Still he didn’t consider himself a failure, simply because it had never occurred to him he could be confined in any such square john term. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 4, 1967
- Here this fool had a smart square broad with a progressive square-john husband, infatuated with him. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 24, 1969
- Of course now, she was no square-john girl. She wasn’t a whore, but she had been married to a notorious pimp and had inherited a bunch of money and they lived real high. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 111, 1972
- Vito, you’re not a down-the-line square John. — Vincent Patrick, Family Business, p. 55, 1985
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