"On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]

[Mark Mandel]

Thanks for the context & clarification.

Mark

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was just something said by some random player on one of the "Judge"
> shows, today. Something about the fact that having to keep the
> relationship on the low-low should have warned the woman suing him
> that she was being fucked over.
>
> Apparently, the down-low / low-low is not just for closeted gays, anymore.
>
> Yet again, I regret the misunderstanding. FWIW, it has, in my
> experience, been several years since "down-low" has been used WRT
> straight relationships - four? five? - but I heard this variant,
> "low-low," for the first time only today.
>
> -Wilson

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