[Ads-l] Antedating of "blow job"

[Baker, John]

Earliest I see on Westlaw:  In a 1949 case from Los Angeles County, a policeman testified “That when he confronted the defendant and inquired ‘what was going on?’, the latter replied, ‘Nothing. I was just giving the kid a blow job.’”  The court affirmed a conviction for the ‘act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ of another’.  People v. Milo, 201 P.2d 556, 557 (Calif. Ct. App. Jan. 18, 1949).  The ruling does not indicate when this took place, but it must have been earlier than 1949.


John Baker



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Last month Fred gave us a possible antedating of 'blow job'

OED 1961, Fred's cite possibly 1947.


Here are some more antedatings. Caveats about google datings apply.


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1945 use of a term "blow job" it doesn’t seem to be the modern meaning.
In fact, I can't fathom what it means in context.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Investigation_of_the_Veterans_Administra/5tOgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22blow+job%22&pg=PA1312&printsec=frontcover<https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Investigation_of_the_Veterans_Administra/5tOgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22blow+job%22&pg=PA1312&printsec=frontcover>


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possible 1946 "then did a blow job on the biggest cock he could find"
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Paunch/TNwsAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22a+blow+job%22&dq=%22a+blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover<https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Paunch/TNwsAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22a+blow+job%22&dq=%22a+blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover>


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possible 1949
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bulletin_of_the_Menninger_Clinic/Bu9GAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22blow+job%22&dq=%22blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover<https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bulletin_of_the_Menninger_Clinic/Bu9GAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22blow+job%22&dq=%22blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover>


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Review of court-martial dated 6th July 1951, concerning events that took
place in 1950.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Court_martial_Reports_of_the_Judge_Advoc/4ytEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22blow+job%22&pg=PA821&printsec=frontcover<https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Court_martial_Reports_of_the_Judge_Advoc/4ytEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22blow+job%22&pg=PA821&printsec=frontcover>

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possible 1955

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sexual_Hygiene_and_Pathology/pCBkyIvIoAsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22blow+job%22&dq=%22blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover<https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sexual_Hygiene_and_Pathology/pCBkyIvIoAsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22blow+job%22&dq=%22blow+job%22&printsec=frontcover>

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Possible 1957 Google has mangled two-column text, and the link goes to
a different part of the page. I think it says
" ...accused took Gregory back to the bedroom , intending “ to give him
a blow job "

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22blow+job%22+%22Court-martial+Reports%3A+%22&biw=976&bih=505&sxsrf=ALiCzsa5P964Z3imgQSGJ91tGNd-__LJlA%3A1657942242137&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1957%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1957&tbm=bks<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22blow+job%22+%22Court-martial+Reports%3A+%22&biw=976&bih=505&sxsrf=ALiCzsa5P964Z3imgQSGJ91tGNd-__LJlA%3A1657942242137&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1957%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1957&tbm=bks>


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