booty-chokers

[Laurence Horn]

>booty-chokers = extremely tight pants (not in HDAS, Cassell's, etc.)
>
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>1994 "1994 Billboard Awards" in _k12.chat.senior_ (Usenet newsgroup)
>10 Dec., I will admit he had too many girls in booty-chokers shaking
>their butts on the screen.
>
>1997 "LL Cool J" _I Make My Own Rules_ 81 I'm wearing these tight-a**
>sweatpants, the ones with the double white stripe down the side. They
>call them booty chokers now, but back then, that was the style.
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312967314
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>1999 _The Vibe History of Hip Hop_ 82 In the mid-'80s, when L.L. was a
>foxy teenage superego strutting around in gold chains and shiny red
>booty chokers

this also appears to assume a very post-Freudian notion of "superego"

LH

>, everyone from Kool Moe Dee to Ice-T wanted to crush his
>metaphorical Kangol.
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0609805037/
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>2003 _Village Voice_ 28 Mar. (online) Eddie, in response to Antonio's
>questions regarding the discomfort of latex, convinces him to try on a
>pair of silly, practically painted-on pants that far exceed
>descriptions like banana hammock, booty-chokers, and grape smugglers.
>http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0314,maldoro,42995,24.html
>
>2005 "Noire" _G-Spot_ 122 I put on my tightest booty-chokers and Rita
>took me to East New York to a house party where I slow-grinded for the
>very first time with some guy I didn't even know!
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345477219/
>
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