WOTY

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:34 PM +0800 3/7/08, LanDi Liu wrote:
>I've never heard "strokin'" used referring to sex (aside from jerking
>off).  Has anybody else?

No, but it's relatively transparent.  Cf. "down to the short
strokes", which at least Safire has derived on various occasions as a
metaphorical extension from a sexual reference.

LH

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>On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Brenda Lester
><alphatwin2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>   I second that emotion.
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>>   I vote for "sassified" ... See
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>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8
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