Heard on the Steve Wilkos Show: "Leg" = "ass"

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS I prints a number of exx., though nothing before 1966. The first ex.
comes from the late, sort-of-great Hunter S. Thompson.

Slang originally specific to BE was poorly documented in print before the
'60s & '70s.

Just another doctoral diz suggestion for some whippersnapper.

JL

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Back in the late '50's and early '60's, in military BE, "leg" was
> often used euphemistically in place of "ass" in sex talk: "get some
> leg" = "get some ass." However, after I got out of the military, I
> never heard the term used again. But, apparently, it's not dead.
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> Forty-three-year-old black male speaker:
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> "I had just got out of prison. I wasn't but looking for a piece of
> ass, some _leg_. So, I called the chat line."
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> -Wilson
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