[Ads-l] "V-card" (1983)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Well, no, that's about exactly as cryptic as the other one.

(FWIW I don't recall the term from my own high-school days in the 1980s.)

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 05:04:49PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> Same source, same issue, p. 13 col. 4, perhaps slightly less cryptic:
> 
> I, Barby Speight, being of sound mind and body that's really lookin' good, leave my V-card to Tiffany Hitt who can turn it in next year as I have done.
> 
> https://archive.org/details/logosii198305/page/n12/mode/1up
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:54:34PM -0400, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> > The latest OED3 update (Sep. 2020) includes an entry for _V-card_ meaning
> > "virginity, often in _to lose one's V-card_: to lose one's virginity." The
> > earliest citation given is from a 1995 Usenet newsgroup post, but I
> > definitely remember this in high school usage in New Jersey in the
> > mid-'80s. Here it is in a newspaper at a Nashville girls' prep school from
> > 1983 -- the meaning isn't spelled out, but I think it's implied given the
> > context.
> > 
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> > https://archive.org/details/logosii198305/page/n5/mode/1up
> > _Logos II_, Harpeth Hall School (Nashville, Tenn.), May 1983, p. 6, col. 1
> > "Seniors' Final Words"
> > I, Anna Amacher, of sound mind and overworked dancer's body, do hereby
> > leave the following... to anybody with the desire to turn in her V-card, I
> > leave Victor Deupi.
> > ---
> > 
> > I wouldn't be surprised if it could be found in other high school/college
> > publications from that era, perhaps used less cryptically.
> > 
> > --bgz
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