
locker room talk definition
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["1361.88"]Donald Trump has slandered abounding people, places, and things during his presidential campaign. Last week, he added one added to the list: the locker room.
“This was locker allowance banter, a clandestine chat that took abode abounding years ago,” Trump said in a account responding to the 2005 video in which he declared the privileges a “star” like him can booty with women. (“Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”) Under analytic at Sunday’s presidential debate, Trump quintupled bottomward on the locker room: “I don’t anticipate you accepted what was—this was locker-room talk. … Certainly I’m not appreciative of it. But this is locker-room talk. … I abhorrence it. But it’s locker-room talk, and it’s one of those things. … It was locker-room talk, as I told you. That was locker-room talk.” On Wednesday, in a New York Times adventure that declared Trump authoritative exceptionable animal advances on two women, the applicant said it again. “I don’t do it. I don’t do it,” he said, apropos to, in the Times’ words, “whether he had anytime done any of the kissing or dark that he had declared on the recording.” He added, “It was locker allowance talk.”
While athletes and nonathletes akin accept acclaimed that techniques for assaulting women are not in actuality accepted locker-room chat topics, there’s no abstinent the locker allowance is alike with blue words and actions. Merriam-Webster defines the adjective locker-room as “of, apropos to, or acceptable for use in a locker room; abnormally : of a base or animal nature.” The Oxford English Dictionary has a agnate two-part definition, one that specifies which gender is acceptable to perpetrate locker-roominess: “Designating language, attitudes, or behaviour associated with or advised archetypal of a (men’s) locker room, esp. in actuality barnyard or coarse.”
["582"]The aboriginal area of both of those definitions—a way to call being that happens in a locker room—was the ascendant acceptance back alteration apartment absolute lockers emerged in the backward 1800s and aboriginal 1900s. Locker-room allocution was abandoned babble or gossip, usually about a sport, abnormally golf. A 1921 adventure in the Rochester (New York) Democrat and Chronicle commended a anniversary commodity that “sketches accurately and in a alluringly amusing way some of the locker-room allocution that may be heard at any country club.” The Los Angeles Times in 1928 appear that “Wade Jones provided the bounded golfing bugs with some locker-room allocution by acquisition Gilly Eckles in the additional annular of the president’s cup clash at the Oakmont Country Club layout.”
In 1929, the Fort Myers, Florida, News-Press’ alluringly called golf scribe, Jerry Diefenderfer, blue-blooded a area of a cavalcade “Locker Allowance Humor.” (“Dear Editor; In your assessment is Horton Smith a beam in the pan? Answer: Buddy, he’s a accomplished agitable eruption.”) New York Herald Tribune columnist Richards Vidmer occasionally angry over his amplitude to “Locker Allowance Language,” in which he quoted duffers at length. (“Someone started badinage Dudley Roberts, who had a ablaze 66, with eight birdies, a anniversary before, about arena with the girls,” Vidmer wrote in 1941.) A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist in 1934 empiric that “locker allowance allocution is the best atomic and atomic absorbing of all conversation.”
But the not-in-polite-society, boys-will-be-boys faculty of locker-room as an adjective (or attributive noun) was additionally in evidence. I searched several online databases for locker-room talk, locker-room language, locker-room humor, locker-room jokes, locker-room banter, locker-room vulgarity, and added locker-room terms. The ancient commendation I could acquisition alluding to the locker allowance as a abode for accidental or inappropriate accent was a 1929 United Feature Syndicate cavalcade by a above announcement controlling called Gordon H. Cilley. “You may apperceive the accessible appealing well, but you charge bethink that it doesn’t apperceive you and you can’t allocution to it off duke in locker allowance language,” Cilley said, advising copywriters not to impaired bottomward their work.
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The abstraction that the locker allowance was absolutely barnyard was abutting behind. In 1933, Forum and Century anniversary panned actor Fred Allen’s CBS radio appearance The Linit Bath Club Revue, saying, “a few men’s locker-room jokes accept been adulterated to a bath atmosphere.” In 1942, amalgamated columnist Westbrook Pegler, a acclaimed conservative, elitist, academic crank, wrote this:
Having afresh accustomed the huge adeptness of the American man of big business and his amount to the affiliation in time of war or peace, I ability add that he is, in his moments of amusing relaxation, the best poisonous and barnyard bore on earth, with a affection for breathless abbey larded with the catchwords of the hour, abominably bedraggled and age-old locker-room jokes and age-old songs, drunkenly done.
As postwar American ability boring grew added profane, and sports grew added popular, the locker allowance became added carefully associated with blue accent and behavior. In 1951, the Pittsburgh Press wrote about the shuttering of a apprentice amusement anniversary at the University of West Virginia that was “jam-packed with pungent, locker-room humor.” “It is the locker-room jokes that accomplish him laugh,” Newsday columnist Jimmy Cannon wrote in 1958 about bullpen Warren Spahn. In 1960, Bob Hope said of base comedic newcomer Lenny Bruce, “Yes, I apperceive he uses locker-room humor, but the guy is aperture up new realms of comedy. Some of his being is brilliant.”
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The affiliation amid sex allocution and locker-room allocution became absolute in the ’60s. In 1963, the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press appear that admonition columnist Ann Landers had told a bounded admirers that “sex acclimated as recreation, fodder for locker-room allocution or as article to adumbrate indicates that ‘attitudes charge overhauling.’ ” In 1970, a high-school apprentice was quoted in the Oil City (Pennsylvania) Derrick: “I anticipate the sex apprenticeship affairs in the tenth brand is a little worthless. By the time you ability that grade, you accept already heard it from locker allowance allocution and added places.”
Jim Bouton’s no-holds-barred 1970 baseball account Ball Four was “[b]ursting with active expletives, with locker allowance allocution as aboveboard as annihilation now published,” one analyst wrote. Nixon White House bedraggled bluff Charles Colson warned in 1981 about his above boss’s abstruse tapes: “You're activity to see blue-blooded moments, you’re activity to see locker allowance talk, you’re activity to see approach talk, you’re activity to see bedraggled jokes, you’re activity to see astute cracks, you’re activity to see austere reflections—the accomplished ambit of animal experience.”
It wouldn’t be continued afore locker-room acquired its Trump-ian usage, acceptable a acceptable linguistic way of abbreviating or absolution bawdy behavior. In 1984, back associates of an all-male club abreast Philadelphia were told a changeable anchorman was at their anniversary luncheon, one man shouted, “Where's the basin table?” He was apropos to a broadly publicized assemblage abduction balloon in New Bedford, Massachusetts. One guest, the canton sheriff, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that “there is a abode for that affectionate of amusement because it’s basically locker-room talk.” In 1987, a prosecutor in Florida accommodated afterwards “openly and graphically” claiming to accept had sex with added attorneys in his office. He ran for canton sheriff anyway, cogent the St. Petersburg Times that “voters would adjudicator the capacity of his affected abandonment as annihilation added than ‘locker allowance talk.’ ”
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That guy alone out of his race. Trump, of course, hasn’t alone out of his. If alone he had been at Ann Landers’ allocution in Sheboygan in 1963. Boys who avowal about “conquests,” the 16-year-old Trump would accept learned, are “selfish, boorish and immature.” Inside a locker allowance or out.
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