"On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]

[Wilson Gray]

It was just something said by some random player on one of the "Judge"
shows, today. Something about the fact that having to keep the
relationship on the low-low should have warned the woman suing him
that she was being fucked over.

Apparently, the down-low / low-low is not just for closeted gays, anymore.

Yet again, I regret the misunderstanding. FWIW, it has, in my
experience, been several years since "down-low" has been used WRT
straight relationships - four? five? - but I heard this variant,
"low-low," for the first time only today.

-Wilson

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> You wanna try that again, this time with content?
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> Mark
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> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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