[Ads-l] TV dialogue: _guy-trim_

[Laurence Horn]

There's also "man-trim", if urban dictionary can be believed (often a dicey question, of course)--"Predominantly used by the gay male community, could also be applied to a female."  But virtually no hits for either on Google (yet).  The one hit for "cute guy(-)trim", for example, is the innocent

my hair is so lucky to have a cute guy trim it lol

And no man(-)trim at all on the relevant reading.  Maybe it would have caught on more if it lent itself to blends à la "manscaping", "mancation", "mansplaining", "manzeer, "murse", et al, but somehow I don't see "mrim" making the cut...

LH


> On Apr 3, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> JHC!
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> JL
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> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On _The Family Guy_, a friend commiserates with Meg over heartbreak and
>> tries to cheer her up:
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>> "There's a lot of other cute _guy-trim_ in this school."
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>> -Wilson
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