Tramp Stamp

[Tom Dalzell]

My negative feelings about urbandictionary blinded me to this earlier
dating.  Lesson learned.

The tattoo is also known as "ass antlers", which I take back to 2002.

Tom Dalzell


On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
>>
>>        How old is "tramp stamp," the current term for those popular
>> tattoos at the base of a woman's back?  The earliest I see is
>> 8/19/2004
>> from the San Francisco Chronicle (Westlaw):  In the Central Valley,
>> writes Lisa Hayes of Modesto, they call that tattoo at the base of a
>> woman's spine a "tramp stamp."
>>
>>        That seems rather late, though.
>
> Earliest Urban Dictionary definition is from 3/22/2003:
>
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tramp+Stamp&defid=67941
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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