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San Quentin quail
noun
a girl under the age of legal consent US, 1940
San Quentin is California’s largest state prison. In the 1940 film Go West, Groucho Marx played a character named S. Quentin Quale, an inside joke.- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 108, 1954
- “You ain’t been fooling around that little kid, have you? Honest?” “That’s San Quention quail,” said Thomas, attempting to sound like a man of the world. — Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho, p. 140, 1959
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 137, 1967
- One month to go until I turn 18, free from the stigma of “San Quentin quail.” — Jefferson Poland and Valerie Alison, The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, p. 47, 1971
- Then there was the Flim-Flam Man, a cigar in his mouth, and he hustled me out to face the photographers and a covey of San Quentin quail, all of them pimply-faced and squealing like a stoat being castrated with a rusty knife. — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 231, 1972
- “I’m San Quentin Quail, Mr. Winner,” Rosalie says. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 108, 1973
- Sightem spotted by self: middle-aged Volvo with license plates “SQQ,” and you’d have to be middle-aged to remember Errol Flynn’s painful experience with “San Quentin quail.” Just a sec and I’ll spin Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Seven recording of “When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin”. — San Franciscol Chronicle, p. B1, 19 August 1994
- Hill had a large family in mind when he met Elaine in Linden, N.J., and fell desperately in love when he was 20 and she was “San Quentin Quail” as we used to say. I just assumed she was 17 or 18. My gosh, she was 15. — Palm Beach (Florida) Post, p. 1E, 22 May 2003
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