Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYrQAAD3ihkSF-PiD" data-dat="1592"><td class="date"><time>1592</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Greene</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8220">Disputatn Betweene a Hee and a Shee Conny-Catcher</a></ce> (1923) 39: Why Lawrence, the Gally would be moord and the blewe Boore so leane, that he would not be mans meate, if we of the Tra were not to supply his wants.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYtcAAD3ihkUQHCOj" data-dat="1607"><td class="date"><time>1607</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Wilks</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4835">Miseri of an Enforced Marriage</a></ce> Act III: In troth, sister, we two to beg the fields, / And you to betake yourself of the old tra, / Fillg of small ns the suburbs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYvQAAD3ihkZ7mUzh" data-dat="a1618"><td class="date"><time><i>a.</i>1618</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Hargton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8369">Epigrams</a></ce> (1930) No. 368 : I have vsd some traffique the tra [...] My bark was sometim steerd wh forren ore.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYxAAAD3ihkebOdgc" data-dat="1654"><td class="date"><time>1654</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/2890">Mercuri Fumigos</a></ce> 22 25 Oct.–1 Nov. 187: Of <i>Sodom</i> Ladi, and their Tras.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYywAAD3ihkg1dCSr" data-dat="1654"><td class="date"><time>1654</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10432">New Brawle</a></ce> 10: But your hont hoe, and <i>tra</i> too, grew quickly too hott for you.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY0gAAD3ihkny4QUd" data-dat="1663"><td class="date"><time>1663</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><ce>Wandrg whor plat</ce> 4: Tradg is so ad, that a Womans ware is hardly worth the whistlg after.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY2QAAD3ihkrhBodo" data-dat="1667"><td class="date"><time>1667</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Lacey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2324">Sny the St</a></ce> III i: The damn’d <i>French</i>-Men have got all the Tra Town; if they get up all the handsom Women, the <i>English</i> mt e’en march to <i>Wal</i> for Mistrs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY4AAAD3ihktfqwo2" data-dat="1676"><td class="date"><time>1676</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6229">Night-Walkers Declaratn</a></ce> 8: An Embargo is laid on publick Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY5sAAD3ihkwcIr9s" data-dat="1681"><td class="date"><time>1681</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/410">Whippg Tom – Brought to Light</a></ce> 2: He meetg wh a mure Crack or Miss of the Town [...] so swged her Tail, that ’tis thought, she will not be pable of her Tra for some nsirable time.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY7cAAD3ihk0_JbZ5" data-dat="1699"><td class="date"><time>1699</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Farquhar</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7825">Love and a Bottle</a></ce> IV ii: ’Sath! what a Coney-burrough’s here! The Tra go swimmgly on. This is the great Empory of Lewdns.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY9IAAD3ihk6pNEq1" data-dat="1706"><td class="date"><time>1706</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5218">Answer to the Fifteen Comforts of Whorg</a></ce> 7: But now good lack-a-day our Tra’s so bad [...] Our mon Whor n srce their Livgs get.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY-0AAD3ihk8yml3G" data-dat="1710"><td class="date"><time>1710</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Dunton</span> ‘The He-Stmpets’ <ce><a href="/sourc/7663">Athenianism – Project IV</a></ce> 94: [of gay men] Ye Jilts! ’tis prov’d, and mt be said, Your Tails are grown to lewd and bad, That now Mens Tails have all the Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZAgAAD3ihlAGUYlQ" data-dat="1720"><td class="date"><time>1720</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> <span class="thor">D’Urfey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7673">Pills to Purge Melancholy</a></ce> VI 319: When we’re old and y’d, / We procure for the Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZCQAAD3ihlHk1lLa" data-dat="1733"><td class="date"><time>1733</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Cibber</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7140">Harlot’s Progrs</a></ce> 10: Begone, you scy Ja [...] Follow the <i>Dry</i> Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZD8AAD3ihlJ3n2zu" data-dat="1744"><td class="date"><time>1744</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6193">Mache</a></ce> 3: Godss supreme! Protectrs of the Tra!</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZFoAAD3ihlMGgWm2" data-dat="1750"><td class="date"><time>1750</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> ‘Doctor A--- Advice to his Patients’ <ce><a href="/sourc/6083">Button Hole Garland</a></ce> 4: The mon Jas, that make a Tra, / In humourg every ltful Bla.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZHUAAD3ihlSZwumB" data-dat="c1758"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1758</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">John F---g</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7800">Epistle of a Reformed Rake</a></ce> 30: To prevent the Tra beg distrt by Sharpers, or what are generally unrstood by the <i>Technil-name</i> of <i>Bilks</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZJAAAD3ihlVkPjoi" data-dat="1772"><td class="date"><time>1772</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Stevens</span> ‘A Lson of Love’ <ce><a href="/sourc/4248">Songs Comic and Satyril</a></ce> 245: Ye <i>By</i> traffick [...] Can timate jtly all worth – but your <i>Wiv</i>; / While th’ Interts of Tra you so anx improve / You neglect <i>their</i> mands and are bankpts to <i>Love</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZKsAAD3ihlYAhEsX" data-dat="1775"><td class="date"><time>1775</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"> ‘Mrs <i>alias</i> Lady, Agnew’ <ce><a href="/sourc/5402">Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladi of Pleasure Edburgh</a></ce> n.p.: This dnken bundle of iquy, is about 50 years of age, lty and tall, and she has followed the old tra sce she was about 13.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZMYAAD3ihld2a1Ll" data-dat="1787"><td class="date"><time>1787</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/8396">Harris’s List of Covent-Garn Ladi</a></ce> 48: Miss N—b [...] has not been tra more than a twelvemonth.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZOIAAD3ihljrqezM" data-dat="1795"><td class="date"><time>1795</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote">‘Shale’s Rambl’ A. Carpenter <ce><a href="/sourc/10939">Verse Eng. 18C Ireland</a></ce> (1998) 504: So now you maids that love the tra, and now has took the notn, / Apply to me, we’ll soon agree, I’ll put your loom motn.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZP0AAD3ihllufUoK" data-dat="1812"><td class="date"><time>1812</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10776">Spir of Irish W</a></ce> 111: A humped back nobleman [...] told Peg [Plunket, a well-known bawd] was surprsg that ‘<i>so ugly a B— </i> [...] ever thought of takg up her <i>tra</i>’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZRgAAD3ihloym-ec" data-dat="1835"><td class="date"><time>1835</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote">‘Parody on ‘The Maid of Judah’’ <ce>Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanterr</ce> Speddg & Watt (eds) <ce><a href="/sourc/9047">Bawdy Songbooks</a></ce> (2011) III 339: This was the chnt of a girl full tra, / [...] / ’Twas a very long time sce she’d been a maid.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZTMAAD3ihltJVpSA" data-dat="1842"><td class="date"><time>1842</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/326">Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn</a></ce> (NY) 8 Jan. n.p.: ‘The Procurs’ [...] Lor, <span class="sc">Whip</span>, why what a fs you make / About our <i>tra’s</i> great impropriety.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZU8AAD3ihlznY9ib" data-dat="1928"><td class="date"><time>1928</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. McKay</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2684">Home to Harlem</a></ce> 30: ‘High yallers’ were srce there. Except for such sweetmen that lived off the low-down dark tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZWoAAD3ihl0iLFD8" data-dat="1939"><td class="date"><time>1939</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">K. Tennant</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4369">Fovex</a></ce> 328: When three shrill, bepated women climbed to Tommy’s b one night, he took one genial glance at them and said: ‘How’s tra?’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZYUAAD3ihl7jJHUl" data-dat="1952"><td class="date"><time>1952</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">La & Mortimer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2336">USA Confintial</a></ce> 40: When the FBI took over the enforcement of laws agast whe slavery terstate merce, the tra, for all practil purpos, was smashed.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZaAAAD3ihl8JmAFB" data-dat="1962"><td class="date"><time>1962</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Hser</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8422">Homosexual Society</a></ce> 90: I did some tra on the si wh his type.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZbsAAD3ihmARfbvn" data-dat="1963"><td class="date"><time>1963</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Geofey Tolhurst’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10118">Flat 4 Kg’s Cross</a></ce> (1966) 86: ‘Carla,’ she said, as though tastg . ‘That’s real fancy. Unual, too. Should be a good name the tra’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZdYAAD3ihmGa4g0w" data-dat="1969"><td class="date"><time>1969</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. Sellers</span> <ce>Where Have All the Soldiers Gone</ce> 156: ‘My old lady was a whore and my two olr sisters took up the tra’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZfIAAD3ihmLWNLGI" data-dat="1981"><td class="date"><time>1981</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1870s) <span class="thor">J. Weeks</span> ‘Inverts, Perverts, & Mary-Ann’ <ce><a href="/sourc/2155">Journal Homosexualy</a></ce> (1980/81) VI Fall/Wter 120: By the 1870s, any sort of homosexual transactn, whether or not money was volved, was scribed as ‘tra.’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn2"><span class="senseno">2. </span>a prostute’s client.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZikAAD3ihmRFWNUl" data-dat="1942"><td class="date"><time>1942</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Burley</span> <ce>N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News</ce> 30 May. 16: He’s [i.e. a whe client of black prostut] jt a piece of cheap tra himself.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZkUAAD3ihmWuvxID" data-dat="1948"><td class="date"><time>1948</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Dan Burley </span> ‘Back Door Stuff’ 6 Nov. [synd. l.] This go for those who brg ‘prospects’ or known ‘tra’ om Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island and particular Mississippi, Geia [etc].</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZmEAAD3ihmYKDd9t" data-dat="1952"><td class="date"><time>1952</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">La & Mortimer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2336">USA Confintial</a></ce> 40: They take their tra to flea-bag hotels.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZnwAAD3ihmf-zRIw" data-dat="1964"><td class="date"><time>1964</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Selby Jr</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3979">Last Ex to Brooklyn</a></ce> 192: All her johns and tra were the same. They were all some kd of big shot.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZpgAAD3ihmgNmsyu" data-dat="1971"><td class="date"><time>1971</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Wick & Ksie</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4897">Lively Commerce</a></ce> 41: Prostut ll their clients ‘johns,’ ‘suckers,’ or tra.’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn3"><span class="senseno">3. </span>(<i>gay</i>) a man wh whom one has (mercial) sex, a male prostute; a male prostute’s ctomer; th <a class="xref" href="ztaro2y#rahybsy"><span class="xsub">piece of tra </span><i>unr </i><span class="xhw">piece </span><span class="xpos">n.</span></a></p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZs8AAD3ihmpcFtmJ" data-dat="1919"><td class="date"><time>1919</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> Transcript Foster Inq. <span class="thor">L.R. Murphy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5661">Perverts by Official Orr</a></ce> (1989) 42: Feiselman [...] acced him of equently ‘llg for tra’ the Y.M.C.A. lobby.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZAAD3ihmvPltyR" data-dat="1927"><td class="date"><time>1927</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Wt</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4754">Drag</a></ce> (1997) Act II: Of urse, I don’t go flouncg my hips up and down Broadway pickg up tra or wh a sign on my back advertisg .</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZwYAAD3ihmxXhiHA" data-dat="1949"><td class="date"><time>1949</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Swasarnt Nerf’</span> et al. <ce><a href="/sourc/3097">Gay Girl’s Gui</a></ce> 16: <span class="sc">tra</span>: General term for one who wants to be ‘blown’ whout reciprotg, and wh no mercial implitn per se. Divis to subordate class, such as <span class="sc">gay tra, rough tra, mercial tra</span> and possibly also <span class="sc">dirt</span>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZyEAAD3ihm2AmIVw" data-dat="1959"><td class="date"><time>1959</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Gielgud</span> letter June Mangan <ce><a href="/sourc/2758">John Gielgud’s Letters</a></ce> (2004) 233: Geo Italian boys, gents and tra alternately.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZz0AAD3ihm7wV33d" data-dat="1963"><td class="date"><time>1963</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Rechy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3653">Cy of Night</a></ce> 100: As long as the htler go only wh queens [...] he is himself not nsired ‘queer’ — he remas, the vobulary of that world, ‘tra.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ1gAAD3ihm-C3f2A" data-dat="1972"><td class="date"><time>1972</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">B. Rodgers</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3748">Queens’ Vernacular</a></ce> 199: <b>tra</b> passive activist; nonreciprol sex partner, ually straight.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ3MAAD3ihnAajCPp" data-dat="1984"><td class="date"><time>1984</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5108">Flame : a Life on the Game</a></ce> 67: We end up havg tra. [Ibid.] 111: ‘If you want any tra,’ he said, ‘there’s always the Garn.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ44AAD3ihnHGzG3-" data-dat="1993"><td class="date"><time>1993</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Shell</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4030">Iced</a></ce> 196: ‘Tra’ is a gay term for somebody who is willg to engage sexual enunters wh gay people.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ6oAAD3ihnJBQ-Js" data-dat="2005"><td class="date"><time>2005</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1950s) <span class="thor">E. Whe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4791">My Liv</a></ce> 108: ‘Tra’ – men who uld be ‘serviced’ though of urse they’d never reciprote sce they were real men.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ8UAAD3ihnOJR4FJ" data-dat="2010"><td class="date"><time>2010</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W. Ings</span> ‘Trollg the Beat to Workg the Soob’ <ce><a href="/sourc/11298">Int’l Jrnl Lexig.</a></ce> 23:1 71: In New Zealand there have been many terms for a young male street worker. The clu <b>school bag</b>, <b>street solicor</b>, <b>merchandise</b>, <b>Kleenex</b>, <b>mercial</b>, <b>tra</b>, <b>street trick</b>, and <b>Illegal Tegel</b>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ-EAAD3ihnQDQuNO" data-dat="2023"><td class="date"><time>2023</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Milward</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11382">Man-Eatg Typewrer</a></ce> 105: ‘Is that some bona h tra I n vada?’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn4"><span class="senseno">4. </span>one who works as a prostute.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns

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Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYrQAAD3ihkSF-PiD" data-dat="1592"><td class="date"><time>1592</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Greene</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8220">Disputatn Betweene a Hee and a Shee Conny-Catcher</a></ce> (1923) 39: Why Lawrence, the Gally would be moord and the blewe Boore so leane, that he would not be mans meate, if we of the Tra were not to supply his wants.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYtcAAD3ihkUQHCOj" data-dat="1607"><td class="date"><time>1607</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Wilks</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4835">Miseri of an Enforced Marriage</a></ce> Act III: In troth, sister, we two to beg the fields, / And you to betake yourself of the old tra, / Fillg of small ns the suburbs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYvQAAD3ihkZ7mUzh" data-dat="a1618"><td class="date"><time><i>a.</i>1618</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Hargton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8369">Epigrams</a></ce> (1930) No. 368 : I have vsd some traffique the tra [...] My bark was sometim steerd wh forren ore.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYxAAAD3ihkebOdgc" data-dat="1654"><td class="date"><time>1654</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/2890">Mercuri Fumigos</a></ce> 22 25 Oct.–1 Nov. 187: Of <i>Sodom</i> Ladi, and their Tras.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskYywAAD3ihkg1dCSr" data-dat="1654"><td class="date"><time>1654</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10432">New Brawle</a></ce> 10: But your hont hoe, and <i>tra</i> too, grew quickly too hott for you.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY0gAAD3ihkny4QUd" data-dat="1663"><td class="date"><time>1663</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><ce>Wandrg whor plat</ce> 4: Tradg is so ad, that a Womans ware is hardly worth the whistlg after.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY2QAAD3ihkrhBodo" data-dat="1667"><td class="date"><time>1667</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Lacey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2324">Sny the St</a></ce> III i: The damn’d <i>French</i>-Men have got all the Tra Town; if they get up all the handsom Women, the <i>English</i> mt e’en march to <i>Wal</i> for Mistrs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY4AAAD3ihktfqwo2" data-dat="1676"><td class="date"><time>1676</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6229">Night-Walkers Declaratn</a></ce> 8: An Embargo is laid on publick Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY5sAAD3ihkwcIr9s" data-dat="1681"><td class="date"><time>1681</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/410">Whippg Tom – Brought to Light</a></ce> 2: He meetg wh a mure Crack or Miss of the Town [...] so swged her Tail, that ’tis thought, she will not be pable of her Tra for some nsirable time.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY7cAAD3ihk0_JbZ5" data-dat="1699"><td class="date"><time>1699</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Farquhar</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7825">Love and a Bottle</a></ce> IV ii: ’Sath! what a Coney-burrough’s here! The Tra go swimmgly on. This is the great Empory of Lewdns.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY9IAAD3ihk6pNEq1" data-dat="1706"><td class="date"><time>1706</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5218">Answer to the Fifteen Comforts of Whorg</a></ce> 7: But now good lack-a-day our Tra’s so bad [...] Our mon Whor n srce their Livgs get.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskY-0AAD3ihk8yml3G" data-dat="1710"><td class="date"><time>1710</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Dunton</span> ‘The He-Stmpets’ <ce><a href="/sourc/7663">Athenianism – Project IV</a></ce> 94: [of gay men] Ye Jilts! ’tis prov’d, and mt be said, Your Tails are grown to lewd and bad, That now Mens Tails have all the Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZAgAAD3ihlAGUYlQ" data-dat="1720"><td class="date"><time>1720</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> <span class="thor">D’Urfey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7673">Pills to Purge Melancholy</a></ce> VI 319: When we’re old and y’d, / We procure for the Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZCQAAD3ihlHk1lLa" data-dat="1733"><td class="date"><time>1733</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Cibber</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7140">Harlot’s Progrs</a></ce> 10: Begone, you scy Ja [...] Follow the <i>Dry</i> Tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZD8AAD3ihlJ3n2zu" data-dat="1744"><td class="date"><time>1744</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6193">Mache</a></ce> 3: Godss supreme! Protectrs of the Tra!</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZFoAAD3ihlMGgWm2" data-dat="1750"><td class="date"><time>1750</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> ‘Doctor A--- Advice to his Patients’ <ce><a href="/sourc/6083">Button Hole Garland</a></ce> 4: The mon Jas, that make a Tra, / In humourg every ltful Bla.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZHUAAD3ihlSZwumB" data-dat="c1758"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1758</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">John F---g</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7800">Epistle of a Reformed Rake</a></ce> 30: To prevent the Tra beg distrt by Sharpers, or what are generally unrstood by the <i>Technil-name</i> of <i>Bilks</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZJAAAD3ihlVkPjoi" data-dat="1772"><td class="date"><time>1772</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Stevens</span> ‘A Lson of Love’ <ce><a href="/sourc/4248">Songs Comic and Satyril</a></ce> 245: Ye <i>By</i> traffick [...] Can timate jtly all worth – but your <i>Wiv</i>; / While th’ Interts of Tra you so anx improve / You neglect <i>their</i> mands and are bankpts to <i>Love</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZKsAAD3ihlYAhEsX" data-dat="1775"><td class="date"><time>1775</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"> ‘Mrs <i>alias</i> Lady, Agnew’ <ce><a href="/sourc/5402">Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladi of Pleasure Edburgh</a></ce> n.p.: This dnken bundle of iquy, is about 50 years of age, lty and tall, and she has followed the old tra sce she was about 13.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZMYAAD3ihld2a1Ll" data-dat="1787"><td class="date"><time>1787</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/8396">Harris’s List of Covent-Garn Ladi</a></ce> 48: Miss N—b [...] has not been tra more than a twelvemonth.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZOIAAD3ihljrqezM" data-dat="1795"><td class="date"><time>1795</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote">‘Shale’s Rambl’ A. Carpenter <ce><a href="/sourc/10939">Verse Eng. 18C Ireland</a></ce> (1998) 504: So now you maids that love the tra, and now has took the notn, / Apply to me, we’ll soon agree, I’ll put your loom motn.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZP0AAD3ihllufUoK" data-dat="1812"><td class="date"><time>1812</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10776">Spir of Irish W</a></ce> 111: A humped back nobleman [...] told Peg [Plunket, a well-known bawd] was surprsg that ‘<i>so ugly a B— </i> [...] ever thought of takg up her <i>tra</i>’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZRgAAD3ihloym-ec" data-dat="1835"><td class="date"><time>1835</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote">‘Parody on ‘The Maid of Judah’’ <ce>Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanterr</ce> Speddg & Watt (eds) <ce><a href="/sourc/9047">Bawdy Songbooks</a></ce> (2011) III 339: This was the chnt of a girl full tra, / [...] / ’Twas a very long time sce she’d been a maid.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZTMAAD3ihltJVpSA" data-dat="1842"><td class="date"><time>1842</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/326">Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn</a></ce> (NY) 8 Jan. n.p.: ‘The Procurs’ [...] Lor, <span class="sc">Whip</span>, why what a fs you make / About our <i>tra’s</i> great impropriety.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZU8AAD3ihlznY9ib" data-dat="1928"><td class="date"><time>1928</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. McKay</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2684">Home to Harlem</a></ce> 30: ‘High yallers’ were srce there. Except for such sweetmen that lived off the low-down dark tra.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZWoAAD3ihl0iLFD8" data-dat="1939"><td class="date"><time>1939</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">K. Tennant</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4369">Fovex</a></ce> 328: When three shrill, bepated women climbed to Tommy’s b one night, he took one genial glance at them and said: ‘How’s tra?’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZYUAAD3ihl7jJHUl" data-dat="1952"><td class="date"><time>1952</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">La & Mortimer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2336">USA Confintial</a></ce> 40: When the FBI took over the enforcement of laws agast whe slavery terstate merce, the tra, for all practil purpos, was smashed.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZaAAAD3ihl8JmAFB" data-dat="1962"><td class="date"><time>1962</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Hser</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8422">Homosexual Society</a></ce> 90: I did some tra on the si wh his type.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZbsAAD3ihmARfbvn" data-dat="1963"><td class="date"><time>1963</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Geofey Tolhurst’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10118">Flat 4 Kg’s Cross</a></ce> (1966) 86: ‘Carla,’ she said, as though tastg . ‘That’s real fancy. Unual, too. Should be a good name the tra’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZdYAAD3ihmGa4g0w" data-dat="1969"><td class="date"><time>1969</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. Sellers</span> <ce>Where Have All the Soldiers Gone</ce> 156: ‘My old lady was a whore and my two olr sisters took up the tra’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZfIAAD3ihmLWNLGI" data-dat="1981"><td class="date"><time>1981</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1870s) <span class="thor">J. Weeks</span> ‘Inverts, Perverts, & Mary-Ann’ <ce><a href="/sourc/2155">Journal Homosexualy</a></ce> (1980/81) VI Fall/Wter 120: By the 1870s, any sort of homosexual transactn, whether or not money was volved, was scribed as ‘tra.’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn2"><span class="senseno">2. </span>a prostute’s client.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZikAAD3ihmRFWNUl" data-dat="1942"><td class="date"><time>1942</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Burley</span> <ce>N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News</ce> 30 May. 16: He’s [i.e. a whe client of black prostut] jt a piece of cheap tra himself.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZkUAAD3ihmWuvxID" data-dat="1948"><td class="date"><time>1948</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Dan Burley </span> ‘Back Door Stuff’ 6 Nov. [synd. l.] This go for those who brg ‘prospects’ or known ‘tra’ om Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island and particular Mississippi, Geia [etc].</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZmEAAD3ihmYKDd9t" data-dat="1952"><td class="date"><time>1952</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">La & Mortimer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2336">USA Confintial</a></ce> 40: They take their tra to flea-bag hotels.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZnwAAD3ihmf-zRIw" data-dat="1964"><td class="date"><time>1964</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Selby Jr</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3979">Last Ex to Brooklyn</a></ce> 192: All her johns and tra were the same. They were all some kd of big shot.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZpgAAD3ihmgNmsyu" data-dat="1971"><td class="date"><time>1971</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Wick & Ksie</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4897">Lively Commerce</a></ce> 41: Prostut ll their clients ‘johns,’ ‘suckers,’ or tra.’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn3"><span class="senseno">3. </span>(<i>gay</i>) a man wh whom one has (mercial) sex, a male prostute; a male prostute’s ctomer; th <a class="xref" href="ztaro2y#rahybsy"><span class="xsub">piece of tra </span><i>unr </i><span class="xhw">piece </span><span class="xpos">n.</span></a></p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZs8AAD3ihmpcFtmJ" data-dat="1919"><td class="date"><time>1919</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"> Transcript Foster Inq. <span class="thor">L.R. Murphy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5661">Perverts by Official Orr</a></ce> (1989) 42: Feiselman [...] acced him of equently ‘llg for tra’ the Y.M.C.A. lobby.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZAAD3ihmvPltyR" data-dat="1927"><td class="date"><time>1927</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Wt</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4754">Drag</a></ce> (1997) Act II: Of urse, I don’t go flouncg my hips up and down Broadway pickg up tra or wh a sign on my back advertisg .</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZwYAAD3ihmxXhiHA" data-dat="1949"><td class="date"><time>1949</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Swasarnt Nerf’</span> et al. <ce><a href="/sourc/3097">Gay Girl’s Gui</a></ce> 16: <span class="sc">tra</span>: General term for one who wants to be ‘blown’ whout reciprotg, and wh no mercial implitn per se. Divis to subordate class, such as <span class="sc">gay tra, rough tra, mercial tra</span> and possibly also <span class="sc">dirt</span>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZyEAAD3ihm2AmIVw" data-dat="1959"><td class="date"><time>1959</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Gielgud</span> letter June Mangan <ce><a href="/sourc/2758">John Gielgud’s Letters</a></ce> (2004) 233: Geo Italian boys, gents and tra alternately.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZz0AAD3ihm7wV33d" data-dat="1963"><td class="date"><time>1963</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Rechy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3653">Cy of Night</a></ce> 100: As long as the htler go only wh queens [...] he is himself not nsired ‘queer’ — he remas, the vobulary of that world, ‘tra.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ1gAAD3ihm-C3f2A" data-dat="1972"><td class="date"><time>1972</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">B. Rodgers</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3748">Queens’ Vernacular</a></ce> 199: <b>tra</b> passive activist; nonreciprol sex partner, ually straight.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ3MAAD3ihnAajCPp" data-dat="1984"><td class="date"><time>1984</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5108">Flame : a Life on the Game</a></ce> 67: We end up havg tra. [Ibid.] 111: ‘If you want any tra,’ he said, ‘there’s always the Garn.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ44AAD3ihnHGzG3-" data-dat="1993"><td class="date"><time>1993</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Shell</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4030">Iced</a></ce> 196: ‘Tra’ is a gay term for somebody who is willg to engage sexual enunters wh gay people.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ6oAAD3ihnJBQ-Js" data-dat="2005"><td class="date"><time>2005</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1950s) <span class="thor">E. Whe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4791">My Liv</a></ce> 108: ‘Tra’ – men who uld be ‘serviced’ though of urse they’d never reciprote sce they were real men.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ8UAAD3ihnOJR4FJ" data-dat="2010"><td class="date"><time>2010</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W. Ings</span> ‘Trollg the Beat to Workg the Soob’ <ce><a href="/sourc/11298">Int’l Jrnl Lexig.</a></ce> 23:1 71: In New Zealand there have been many terms for a young male street worker. The clu <b>school bag</b>, <b>street solicor</b>, <b>merchandise</b>, <b>Kleenex</b>, <b>mercial</b>, <b>tra</b>, <b>street trick</b>, and <b>Illegal Tegel</b>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVskZ-EAAD3ihnQDQuNO" data-dat="2023"><td class="date"><time>2023</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Milward</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11382">Man-Eatg Typewrer</a></ce> 105: ‘Is that some bona h tra I n vada?’.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn4"><span class="senseno">4. </span>one who works as a prostute.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns.