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circus
noun- sexual behaviour that is public, fetishistic or both US, 1878
- [B]aby spotlights were focused on the three naked women who were participating in the circus. — Irving Shulman, Cry Tough, p. 176, 1949
- Brenda described a “party” or “circus” at the request of a grand juror. She said there would be a group of girls and paying customers–“three or four men from the studios whose names I won’t mention because they’re all professionals.” All would be in the nude. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 6, 9 August 1949
- A dozen or so convicts stripped naked and had a “circus” in one of the schoolrooms. Convicts came from all over the prison to watch. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. X, 1952
- I’ll do anything. I’ll be your woman, or a circus girl. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 209, 1957
- If they desire the kind of entertainment most ordinarily referred to as a sex circus, they do their booking through a pimp or out of a brothel. — Lois O’Conner, The Bare Facts, p. 45, 1964
- When I came in here, our deal included no circuses, no shows, no peeping. — Robert Leslie, Confessions of a Lesbian Prostitute, p. 66, 1965
- [W]here the skinpoppers and schmeckers (those who used the needles and those who sniffed the powder), the pushers and the weedheads gathered for sex circuses and to listen to the real cool jive. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 150, 1966
- We would snort it [cocaine] through alabaster horns and then in the mirrored bedroom we made “circus” love until our nerve ends shrieked. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 61, 1969
- I mean, we all decided with Gwenie we could now handle “trio tricks” and put on more “shows” and “circuses” and stuff like that. — Joey V., Portrait of Joey, p. 131, 1969
- A circus, Porky thought as he watched another girl cross the room and sit down on the floor between Jean’s legs. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 12, 1971
- a state of affairs; a noisy and confused institution, place, scene or assemblage US, 1899
- Oh what a circus / Oh what a show / Argentina has gone to town /Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron — Tim Rice, Oh, What a Circus, 1978
- The absolute pits, for everyone concerned, are the hotel circuses where a Hollywood star is flown into London for a couple of days to do “European publicity.” — The Observer, 27 January 2002
- [A] media circus[.] — Guardian, 12 July 2002
- a temporary company of people (often moving from place to place), engaged in the same endeavour, e.g. lawn tennis, motor racing, etc. UK, 1958
A specialisation of CIRCUS (an assemblage). - a group of aircraft engaged in displays of skilful flying UK, 1916
Military origins. - feigned spasms by a drug addict to convince a doctor to prescribe a narcotic US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 50, 1949
- [T]he junkie was throwing a regular circus for the boys, tossing himself about on the floor. — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 206, 1949
- — J.E. Schmidt, Narcotics Lingo and Lore, p. 30, 1959
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