[Ads-l] In Green's Dictionary

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS II has this from 1967.

JL

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> _jack bumps_ (n.) (US) acne, allegedly caused by masturbation.
>
> New to me, but, down yonder in East Texas, where _fist-fucking_ =
> "masturbation," the colored used _fist bumps_, with the same meaning for
> the same reason, back in 1947..
>
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> -Wilson
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