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 .'

See Also: B-girl, mermaid

Quotes Containing mermaid:
Mr. Peabody (William Powell) in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948): ''Fifty: the old age of youth, the youth of old age .''
Mr. Peabody (William Powell) in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948):''Fifty: the old age of youth, the youth of old age .''

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