Today's Sex Term is a broad with canned goods. It is slang from World War II and refers to a female who is a virgin.

I don't know of anyone outside of residents of an assisted living facility who still refer to a woman as "a broad." As for "canned goods," chalk it up to a fascinating era that you can get a glimpse of on Turner Classics when watching World War II movies.

(Today's sex term is by way of Paul Dickson's excellent "War Slang: American Fighting Words and PhrasesSince the Civil War" 2nd edition.)

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