shrimp

shrimp
 v.— «My offer to shrimp her toes was turned down on the grounds that one either knew how to lick webbing or one didn’t, and she wasn’t going to teach me on the first date.» —“My Date With Eris” by nu-monet v4.0 (nothing@succeeds.comUsenet: alt.discordia May 1, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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