Word: humping
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...Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made a mess of the flower beds, was slightly cut about the face...
...Hump...
...word "hump" obscene? (TIME, May 2). This is disturbing news to me, as I've borne it as a nickname for years...
...never considered myself an intellectual virgin until reading that "hump" is by some considered an obscene word. In what respect...
Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...