RE "Shoot beaver"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Former Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton achieved a _success de scandale_ in 1969-70
when he reported in his memoir, _Ball Four_, that certain Yankee greats
would prowl under the stands trying to "shoot beaver."

HDAS has 1974 for female "shooters," 1969 for the male kind.

JL

 On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> It is my impression that the term "shooting beaver" could also (by a sort
> of projection?) refer to the lascivious glimpsing of accidentally exposed
> female crotches ("beavers")--as when a woman is seen sitting carelessly in a
> dress or skirt.  A common regional variant (in eastern Texas in the 1960s)
> was "shooting squirrel."
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> --Charlie
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> Exposing their genitals. Anterior version of mooning. In my experience.
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> Eric
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> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Does anyone know the slang-meaning of this?
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> .....the girls in her class "shooting beaver" at the boys.
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint to
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