Heard on The Judges: "play-touch"

[Wilson Gray]

Mid-twentyi-ish, white, female defendant:

"I didn't cheat on him, your honor. We [the other man and I] didn't
have sex, we didn't hug, we didn't kiss, we didn't do anything! We
just _play-touched_."


If "play-touch" means "fondle (each other)," as it appears to, it's
hard to imagine that there was no hugging and kissing involved. The
show's commentator was also struck by this locution, making a point of
quoting it.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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