Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896

[Mullins, Bill]

Isn't wad a synonym for (noun) ejaculate?  Is that where Johnny "Wad" Holmes
(male porn star) got his nickname? Thus making sexual meanings more
appropriate.

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> Since to have "shot one's wad" means "to have exhausted
> oneself; become played out," etc., sexual applications should
> have occurred almost immediately.
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> JL.
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