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sitter noun- a woman who works in a bar, encouraging male customers to drink and to buy them drinks US, 1987
- — Maledicta, p. 150, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
- a hostess in a brothel, neither prostitute nor madam AUSTRALIA
- — Thommo, The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, p. 119, 1985
- a person who monitors and comforts an alcohol or drug addict who is going through the initial stages of detoxification US
- A term used in twelve-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
- — Christopher Cavanaugh, AA to Z, p. 162, 1998
- a person who guides another or others through an LSD experience US, 1966
An allusion to the practice of babysitting. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 455, 1986
- in pool, a ball perched on the lip of a pocket US, 1924
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 214, 1993
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