Thanks to my flist for beta-testing my "1960s Puffin title generator" a few weeks ago. The finished post is now up at The Awfully Big Blog Adventure - now with a bonus "YA title from around 2000" generator thrown in absolutely free.
I haven't either. Is it recent, or of long standing?
Heck, when I was in college "hook up" just meant "meet" -- e.g., a bunch of friends would arrange to hook up at a particular place and time to go for supper.
The OED isn't always very reliable when it comes to first usage of slang senses, given its reliance on written sources, but according to that it's about 50 years old. (Possibly I misused "hook up"? Obviously, I would say "pull" myself.)
12. trans.
a. Brit. slang. To pick up (a partner), esp. for sexual intercourse; to seduce. Also intr.
1965 Sunday Express 25 July 17/2 As a young man I could never pull (pick up) any birds of my own class.
1973 E. Boyd & R. Parkes Dark Number vi. 69 Five years ago you did the big male-menopause bit, didn't you? Skulking off to Paris to prove you could still pull the birds.
1985 J. Sullivan in Only Fools & Horses: Bible of Peckham iv. 246 Rodney, use your loaf, you're never gonna pull a tart dressed up like Bertie Bassett.
1993 Bella 29 Sept. 40/1 ‘So you're a barman,’ she said with a wicked glint in her eyes. ‘I bet you don't have any trouble pulling.’
The pick-up line, "Grab your coat, you've pulled", is apparently well enough known to have spawned a keyring, God help us.
The other phrase in common use in the UK is "to get off with". Is that used in America? My guess is not. Then there's "to score", which I think may indeed be transatlantic.
Conversely, I don't think people here would refer (except as a conscious Americanism) to "getting to third base", etc. Actually, I'm not sure what the various bases even refer to, or whether they have standardized meanings. Do they?
I think most Americans would be able to figure out "get off with," due to "getting off" having the meaning of orgasming, but it's not in common use. Wikipedia gives one explanation of the bases here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex . I remember having arguments about what the bases stood for -- a lot of people thought kissing shouldn't count (because even parents are generally okay with their kids kissing someone), which left more room for other kinds of fooling around to be detailed. Incidentally, there was a joke going around when I was in college about how the reason lesbians are so good at softball is that they need only get to third base to score.
"Presuming Coffee". I wouldn't read it, though it does bring to mind an exchange from Brassed Off - "Do you want to come up for coffee?" "I don't drink coffee." "I haven't got any."
First verb was "open." In context, HORRIFYING.
The next verb got me Pulling Jarabso.
Heck, when I was in college "hook up" just meant "meet" -- e.g., a bunch of friends would arrange to hook up at a particular place and time to go for supper.
The pick-up line, "Grab your coat, you've pulled", is apparently well enough known to have spawned a keyring, God help us.
Edited at 2015-02-12 04:01 pm (UTC)
My God, that keyring is repulsive.
Conversely, I don't think people here would refer (except as a conscious Americanism) to "getting to third base", etc. Actually, I'm not sure what the various bases even refer to, or whether they have standardized meanings. Do they?
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