Antedating of "Gay Bashing"
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Nov 29 16:32:22 UTC 2006
On 11/29/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "Paki-bashing" appears to be the oldest of these terms:
>
> 1970 Times [London] (Apr. 3) 3: 'Paki-bashing', as skinheads call it, is
> not confined to east London.
OED has a cite for "queer-bashing" from the (London) Times, 5 Feb 1970.
--Ben Zimmer
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