mermaid:

Dated appellation for a lesbian (based on the joke that one seldom hears of mermen).

QUOTE: The Three Stooges are buying a beauty-parlor in Mexico in Cookoo Cavaliers (1940):
-- Curly: ' Do they have B-girls? '
-- Seller: ' Si, si. '
-- Curly: ' Sea girls! Oh, boy! Mermaids .'

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