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quail
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1. Colloquialism, since the 16 th centuries, for a prostitute. See prostitute for synonyms.See also: covey.
2. Today, generally applied to any woman regarded as a sexual object or quarry, based on a quail being a game bird.
3. In US gay slang, ' a migratory bird, a delicacy to chicken hawks ' Bruce Rodgers. The Queens' Vernacular (1972).
4. Or: California quail / San Quentin quail , a girl below the legal age of consent. Peggy LaRue Satterlee, who charged Errol Flynn with rape in 1942, testified that Flynn had called her J.B. (jailbait) and S.Q.Q. (San Quentin quail) during their encounter. The jury acquitted Flynn.
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Quai d'Orsay
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