belly and body shots

[Jonathan Lighter]

The navel variant has been shown several times this season. It takes a lot
of salt to fill one up, so I'd imagine they're lapping up liquor in those
cases.

JL

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > "Body shots"
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> > 1993, Bruce Craven, _Fast Sofa_.  Then Iona Agave refilled his glass
> > with tequila. A wedge of lime and a bubbly gold schooner of draft
> > already in front of him. Rick looked at the freckles on lona Agave's
> > chest. "Have you ever done body shots?" She leaned against the bar
> > ... .  [Snippet]
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> 1990 _San Diego Union-Tribune_ 13 Oct. B1 (Factiva) Debbie Murphy is
> explaining "body shots": Your boyfriend holds in his mouth a quartered
> lime, cut side out; you lick his shoulder, sprinkle salt on it, lick
> the salt, knock back a shot of tequila and -- of course -- bite the
> lime.
>
> 1992 _Star-Tribune_ 1 Mar. 3B (Factiva) They were taking tequila "body
> shots" off each other's neck... As Polister explains it, that's a
> process that begins with moistening someone's neck with a lime and
> then adding salt to the limed area. One licks the salt off the
> friendly neck, while holding a lime in one's mouth, and then takes a
> swig of tequila.
>
> 1992 _Orange County Register_ 18 July B1 (Factiva) She also charged
> that he used her for a "body shot" at an Irvine bar. She described him
> drinking a shot of tequila, then licking salt off her neck and trying
> to suck a lime from her mouth.
>
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