[Ads-l] obscene slang on TV

[Wilson Gray]

> "wax job"

I see that "walk job" is still not in the UD. OTOH, "sleeve job," spelled
"sleevejob," has made it into the UD, though not in its 1961 meaning of
"shaggy-dog story."

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:55 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> First of all, everything  is now a double entendre.  Given that, I suspect
> that "wax job" is now at least a triple. (See Urban Dictionary.)
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:34 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> FWIW, ZZ Top released the song "Pearl Necklace" in 1981.
> >
> > > In addition, there was the double-entendre, "A String of Pearls,"
> > released
> > > by Glenn Miller in 1941. It reached no.1 on Billboard.
> >
> > You've got a dirty mind <G>.
> > Seriously, I looked over the lyrics and don't see anything about this
> song
> > to think
> > it is anything other than a literal "string of pearls".
> >
> >
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