BIRTH CONTROL
(also see CONDOM)
ADJECTIVES
1920 — BAGGED UP wearing a contraceptive → US sl.
NOUNS
1822 — PREVENTIVE a contraceptive
..20C — BAG a diaphragm → US sl.
..20C — RUBBER RING a diaphragm → US
1901 — PREVENTATIVE a contraceptive
1910 — BUTTON LURK a trick played on a naive woman by a man, bent on intercourse, who removes a button from his coat and promises that it will serve adequately as a contraceptive device → Aust. sl.
1938 — BACKSTOP a diaphragm → Amer. sl.
1943 — DUTCH CAP a contraceptive device for women; a diaphragm
.M20 — SHOWER-CAP a diaphragm → US sl.
.M20 — TABLET a contraceptive pill → euphemism
1960 — PLAY ROOM a diaphragm → Amer. sl.
1960 — ROMAN ROULETTE contraception using no other system than the ‘rhythm method’ as ordained by conservative popes → sl.
1962 — VATICAN ROULETTE the rhythm method of birth control, as permitted by the Roman Catholic Church → jocular usage
1966 — BOUNCING WALLET a wallet containing contraceptives → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1966 — PICTURE WINDOW a plastic contraceptive diaphragm → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1966 — PLAY ROOM a plastic contraceptive diaphragm → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — LEMON DROP a birth control pill → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — JACK AND JILL — THE JACK a birth control pill → rhyming sl.
1970 — LEMON DROP a contraceptive pill → US teen sl.
1970 — RACK a card holding bubble-packed birth control pills; a one-month supply of birth control pills → US sl.
1980 — PUSSY BUTTERFLY an intrauterine contraceptive device; IUD → US sl.
1984 — CATCHER’S MITT a diaphragm → US sl.
1992 — FANNY HILL the contraceptive pill → UK rhyming sl.
1997 — C contraception → US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1970 — LEMON DROP KID a girl who takes birth control pills → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
PREPOSITIONS
1960 — ON using the contraceptive pill → US students’ sl.