purple:

1. Erotic; pornographic or very pornographic , the color purple being a grade deeper and darker than blue . Usage in this sense dates back to the early 20 ^th century.
SYNONYMS: adult ; blue ; dirty ; flaming ; hot ; off-color ; porn ; porno ; porny ; raunchy; salty ; stag ; steamy ; X-rated .

QUOTE: ' There's been a lot of purple prose written in the newspapers for the last few months about The Dane Curse ' (From the 1978 movie of that title depicting San Francisco society in the 1920s.)

2. In porno-movie jargon, smutty pornography , a deeper, darker variety of blue pornography .

See Also: Captain Hogseye, heck bite, hecklace, hickey, his lordship, kiss bite, love bite, monkey bite, porno, porny, purple, purple-headed custard chucker, purple-headed love truncheon, purple-headed meat puppet, purple-headed monster, purple-headed warrior, purple-helmeted yogurt thrower, shag tags, strawberry kiss, suckers

Quotes Containing purple:
Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) in Pretty Woman (1990): - Vivian: ''Pick one! I''ve got red, I''ve got green, I''ve got yellow , I''m out of purple but I do have one Gold Circle Coin left, the condom of champions, the one-and-only , nothing is getting through this sucker . What do you say?'' - Edward: ''A buffet of safety.''

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