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 .'

See Also: advanced in years, aged, ankle-biter, batch, chronologically gifted, codger, crinkly, crone, crowie, crumblie, delo diam, delo nammow, dirty mac brigade, domine do little, dose, dose of clap, dose of the clap, Dracula's mother, drip, dripper, dripsy, dusty, elderly, frogging cully, fumbler, fuzz face, gerascophobia, gerontophobia, gettng on (in years), gonorrhea, love child, making bishops, naviculans, no spring chicken, of mature years, offspring of adultery, old bat, old battle-axe, old dose, old in and out, the, old in-out, the, rug rat, S.O.S., sexually focused chronologically gifted individual, spurious offspring, stuff a turkey, sunset years, tender chick, TOD, variety artist, wrinkly, zook

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