Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 1996 03:29:17 -0500

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: two questions: boink and fish shanty



> 1). Two years ago some students told me that "to boink" was current slang

> meaning to have intercourse with, as in "John boinked Mary." Last week

> I heard it used meaning "to get rid of (x)." I assumed that this was

> connected with the onomatopoeic comic book use of old. What is current

> with boink?



i use it to refer to having sex. have no ideas about fish shanties.



lynne



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M. Lynne Murphy              104lyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]muse.arts.wits.ac.za

Department of Linguistics            phone: 27(11)716-2340

University of the Witwatersrand          fax: 27(11)716-8030

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