[Ads-l] Long-haul trucker's lexicon + a surprise

[Amy West]

On 6/3/17 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 2 Jun 2017 10:06:46 -0400
> From:    Mark Mandel<thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Long-haul trucker's lexicon + a surprise
>
> But did "drawers" then have the potentially lascivious* sense?
>
> Mark

Yes.

And . . . 1860s drawers are actually crotchless. They're two legs joined 
at the waistband and they button in the back. So, one doesn't undo them 
and pull them down to relieve oneself.

---Amy West


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