"protection" = condom

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:59:25PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> OED doesn't include this specialized sense.  The following cite is almost certainly an ex.:

Thanks for this. We have drafted an entry, but this is rather earlier
than our first example.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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