[Ads-l] antedating (?) of jailbait

Peter Reitan pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 13 23:05:26 UTC 2022


Ads-L thread started December 14, 2017.

Used to refer to anything tempting that might land you in jail as early as 1915.

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Etymology Online dates it as 1928.
Are any earlier sources known?

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=3Djailbait


I found an article or story with the title 'Jail Bait'
Hearst's International Combined With Cosmopolitan
November 1925

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hearst_s_International_Combined_with=
_Cos/tTogAQAAMAAJ?hl=3Den&gbpv=3D1&bsq=3D%22jail+bait+%22&dq=3D%22jail+bait=
+%22&printsec=3Dfrontcover

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