[lit-ideas] The Streaker

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:52:29 EDT
The Life and Times of the Streaker
Do we _need_ a verb to 'mean' "run naked". Apparently the Americans  do.
I wonder if K. Trogge knows the German for 'streaker'.

slang (orig. U.S.).

1973 [implied at STREAKING vbl. n.1 4].
   1974 Runner's World Mag. Feb. 9/1 During the winter of 1958-9  a group
of us ‘streaked’ all over Berkeley.
        1974 Daily Tel. 5 Mar. 3/6 At  Memphis State University, the dean
issued a warning that students caught  ‘streaking’ would be suspended.
             1974  Globe & Mail (Toronto) 18 Mar. S1/1
                      Phil Esposito, stripped as though to streak, held
court in the cluttered  quarters, tall, dark, unquiet.

1979 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 9/3 The girls..had danced on the lawns in the
nightdresses, ‘streaked’ to chapel and enjoyed midnight  parties.

Hence streaker2, one who runs naked in a public place; also attrib.;
streak-in [-IN3], a communal act of running naked in a public place.
     1973 Time 10 Dec. 14/2
         Streakers generally race  nude between two unpredictable points.
              1974 Newsweek 4 Feb. 63/3
One Los Angeles radio station broadcast ‘streaker alerts’ to warn the
populace that naked youths were on the loose.

1978 D. BLOODWORTH Crosstalk xiii. 104

The streaker had invaded the Brasserie Lipp in Paris at lunchtime.

1978 J. IRVING World according to Garp xi. 210 A young woman had reported
that she was approached by an exhibitionistat least, by a  streaker.

1974 Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard 8 Mar. 3/2 The mass  streak-in
started near Victoria and Leonard Halls.

1974 Times 9 Mar. 4/8 Some of the students were arrested when a ‘streak-in’
  turned into a riot.

In a message dated 7/11/2009 5:03:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jwager@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
naked.  just natural men and women.
Mike  Geary wrote:sported an enormous male member

JL Speranza
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