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old dose:
More often: dose-of-clap / dose-of-the-clap / dose-of-the-drip , colloquial term for a gonorrhoeic infection. See gonorrhea for synonyms.QUOTES:
(1) Captain Francis Grose defines clap in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811): ' A venereal taint . He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home ; i.e. he went out a wenching, and got the clap .'
(2) Oscar Wilde (Terry Gilliam) and Jim (John Cleese) entertaining A Royal in Oscar Wilde, Too (1973), a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch.
-- Oscar: ' Your Majesty is like a dose-of-the-clap .'
-- Jim: ' Before you arrive is pleasure, after you leave is a pain in the dark .'
(3) R. Reisner & L. Wechsler. Encyclopedia of Graffiti (1974): ' V.D. is nothing to clap about .'
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