belly and body shots

[Wilson Gray]

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

Nw that my memory has been jogged, I can recall that this type of
"body shot" was also common on the "dating" shows. It's just that the
navel version was more striking - a young woman wearing a micro-mini
over a "string" and lying on the bar or on a table engaged my
attention to a greater degree and made more of an impression than
watching some dork slobbering into someone's cleavage.

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