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sporting life
noun- the business and lifestyle of prostitution and pimping US
- His name was famous in sportin’ life up ’til the time he died, and then he became a legend. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 26, 1973
- a wife UK
Rhyming slang. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- cocaine US
From Porgy and Bess, in which the character Sportin’ Life sells cocaine. Retro and rare. The shortened form is “sporting”. - “Sportin’ Life,” said Mona. “Happy dust. This stuff is an American institution.” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 46, 1978
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
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