Whore's Bath

[Paul]

paul johnson
I certainly remember it from the 40s and 50s.  My parents had a night
club and it was pretty common among show people.  No showers in dressing
rooms, and in cheap hotels there was a sink in the room and showers down
the hall.

Scot LaFaive wrote:
> I'm getting this from "Austin Powers" where the hero mentions "whore's
> bath" as a quick wash of the sexual essentials. I see it listed in
> Urban Dictionary, but that doesn't really mean much. Anyone heard of
> this outside the context of the movie, maybe even prior to the 1997
> movie?
>
> Scot
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