1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Amy West]

On 4/28/12 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:28:12 -0500
> From:    "Cohen, Gerald Leonard"<gcohen at MST.EDU>
> Subject: Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?
>
> I believe Jonathan's tentative explanation about butthole referring to a hole where cigarette butts would be thrown
> is very possibly correct.  See Leo D. Gallagher's _One for the Boneyard: Book Two of the Trilogy "Depraved"_, p. 20,
> I'll transcribe the page and post it in the next day or so, unless someone beats me to it.
Ooo, interesting. So it'd be along the lines of "ashcan" or "ashtray". .
. . ?

---Amy West

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