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chromo
noun- a female prostitute AUSTRALIA, 1883
From “chromolithograph,” a type of painted lithographic picture, referring to the “painted” (i.e. made-up) faces of prostitutes. - “What are you babbling about?” Infuriated, the boy picked the crumbs off his shirt. “About that wop chromo your old man knocks about with, that’s all.” — Ruth Park, Poor Man’s Orange, p. 200, 1949
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 22, 1977
- anything that is inexpensive, shoddy or inferior US, 1934
- — Joseph A. Weingarten, An American Dictoinary of Slang, p. 67, 1954
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