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trade noun- a man, self-identified as heterosexual, who engages in active anal homosexual sex or passive oral homosexual sex but will not reciprocate US, 1927
- All her johns and trade were the same. They were all some kind of big shot. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 204, 1957
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 266, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- And I had never heard even the scores and queens, who would often in bitchiness claim that “today’s trade is tomorrow’s competition,” say it about Chuck. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 139, 1963
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- Homosexuals have a terse phrase to sum up this observation, “Today’s trade is tomorrow’s competition.” — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 17, 1965
- The humiliating position he would put himself in when some piece of trade spurned him because he was not able to lay on the requisite bread! — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 97, 1968
- Never back down on trade agreements. [“Trade” are “tricks” who do not, as yet, consider themselves homosexual.] — Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade, p. 47, 1975
- As the men often say, “Today’s trade is tomorrow’s competition.” — Jack Weatherford, Porn Row, p. 119, 1986
- heterosexual or homosexual prostitution; customers of that prostitution, especially homosexual UK, 1680
Originally “the trade”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 116, 1996
- You should see my trade. — Peter Sotos, Index, p. 5, 1996
- As she waited, several young men came scuttling up to her by turns, asking if she was looking for A Score [a drugs purchase] or for Some Trade. — James Hawes, White Powder, Green Light, p. 219, 2002
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