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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:31:29 PM EDT
[#1]
I use that term all the time. Nicer than ‘bitches’, ‘chicks’ and sounds better to me than girl or woman.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:32:27 PM EDT
[#2]
Broad range of women.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:33:01 PM EDT
[#3]
I was thinking hip width.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:33:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking hip width. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:34:54 PM EDT
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I use the term broad when referring to women sometimes but then again, I really enjoy old radio shows and movies from the era that the term was used.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:36:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking hip width.  |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:36:00 PM EDT
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From etymonline:
c. 1300, "breadth" (obsolete), from broad (adj.). Sense of "shallow, reedy lake formed by the expansion of a river over a flat surface" is a Norfolk dialect word from 1650s. Meaning "the broad part" of anything is by 1741. Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967. That’s hilarious that it used to be the broad jump!  |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:36:20 PM EDT
[#8]
I always heard it was a reference to their hips BUT now looking online it seems to have a quite different meaning.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:36:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking hip width. I think this is the source. Ships used to be described as "broad in the beam". I think that was transferred to women that looked particularly nice while walking away. Later got shortened to just "broad". |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:37:57 PM EDT
[#10]
'Etymology' is the key Google search term...
Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967. Source ETA: Two minutes too slow... 
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:38:45 PM EDT
[#11]
Sounds a lot better that "dat assss" brocephus
And given mens propensity to seek out women with positive attributes for child bearing......................... |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:39:16 PM EDT
[#12]
So, a proto- thicc?
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:39:28 PM EDT
[#13]
Somebody post the video clip of Pacino yelling. "GREAT BIG ASS!!!"
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:39:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: As the title says - ??? It was all I heard from the men of my father's generation and older when I was growing up. Greatest Generation Guy A: "Hey, Mac, check out the legs on that BROAD, will ya?" GGGB (making a wolf whistle): "Now that's what I'm talking about!" GGGA: "Well anyway, let's go smoke six packs of unfiltered Camels, eat plenty of red meat and cholesterol, and kill ourselves by age 65!" GGGB: "Sounds good! Maybe we will see more good lookin' BROADS too!" ??? I mean, I just don't get it. Like, where the expression actually CAME from. Why did they call women "Broads?" Discuss. Cite specific examples. This will be 10% of your final grade. You no have the Google OP? |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:40:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:40:38 PM EDT
[#16]
Check out those "getaway sticks" made me laugh like hell when I heard my old boss say it.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:40:43 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote Historyrofl |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:41:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: From etymonline: c. 1300, "breadth" (obsolete), from broad (adj.). Sense of "shallow, reedy lake formed by the expansion of a river over a flat surface" is a Norfolk dialect word from 1650s. Meaning "the broad part" of anything is by 1741. Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967. That’s hilarious that it used to be the broad jump! If CW ever wanted some media, just add the broad jump competition (with real broads), and watch heads fkn explode 
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:41:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Check out those "getaway sticks" made me laugh like hell when I heard my old boss say it. I've never heard that. That's hilarious. 
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:43:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You no have the Google OP? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: As the title says - ??? It was all I heard from the men of my father's generation and older when I was growing up. Greatest Generation Guy A: "Hey, Mac, check out the legs on that BROAD, will ya?" GGGB (making a wolf whistle): "Now that's what I'm talking about!" GGGA: "Well anyway, let's go smoke six packs of unfiltered Camels, eat plenty of red meat and cholesterol, and kill ourselves by age 65!" GGGB: "Sounds good! Maybe we will see more good lookin' BROADS too!" ??? I mean, I just don't get it. Like, where the expression actually CAME from. Why did they call women "Broads?" Discuss. Cite specific examples. This will be 10% of your final grade. You no have the Google OP? I have ARFCOM GD! Is more better than Google, comrade! More funny replies! 
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:45:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Check out those "getaway sticks" made me laugh like hell when I heard my old boss say it. 
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:45:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Slang for child bearing hips
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:45:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've never heard that. That's hilarious. He was a funny great man . R I P Harry. He loved using the phrase: " Go shit in your hat" fairly often too. Good stuff |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:46:03 PM EDT
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wow learn something new every day in GD
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:49:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:50:01 PM EDT
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Here’s why she’s a tramp
She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight She likes the theater and never comes late She never bothers, with people she'd hate That's why the lady is a tramp Doesn't like dice games, with barons or earls Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls That's why this chick is a tramp She loves the free, cool wind in her hair Life without care She's broke and it's oak Doesn't like California, it's cold and it's damp That's why the lady is a tramp She gets far too hungry, they wait there for dinner at eight She adores the theater however doesn't get there late She'd never bother with someone she'd hate That is why the lady is a tramp Doesn't like dice games with barons and earls Never makes a trip up to Harlem, driving shiny Lincoln's and Ford's She won't dish the dirt, with the rest of those broads That's why this chick is a Tramp She loves the free, fine, wild, knocked out, coo coo, groovy wind in her hair Life's without a care She's broke, but it's oak She loathes California, it's so cold, and so damp That's why the lady, that's why the lady That's why the lady is a tramp |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:50:17 PM EDT
[#27]
Humphrey Bogart
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:51:03 PM EDT
[#28]
Broad child bearing hips...
Even back in the day thicc was in! |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:51:15 PM EDT
[#29]
Have you ever been a broad?
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:51:40 PM EDT
[#30]
It's what's most important in life.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:52:49 PM EDT
[#31]
Always figured it was because they get Broader as they age...
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:55:30 PM EDT
[#32]
I wasn't a Marine, but my dad was and he once explained the acronym BAM to me. It's a reference to female Marines, but I have no idea if it's true...
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:57:17 PM EDT
[#33]
My mom is the only person I know who still says "broad".
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:58:14 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My mom is the only person I know who still says "broad". Lol, I thought I was the only one. (Well, dad too). |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:58:31 PM EDT
[#35]
broad hips
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:58:41 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wasn't a Marine, but my dad was and he once explained the acronym BAM to me. It's a reference to female Marines, but I have no idea if it's true... In for answer. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:58:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, I thought I was the only one. (Well, dad says it too). |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 5:59:38 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was thinking hip width. You would be correct. I recall asking my dad this as a child. He was ww2 vet and for him it was a common term. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:00:34 PM EDT
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Width of ass.
BAM = Female Marine = “Broad-assed Marine” |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:01:27 PM EDT
[#40]
thicc
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:03:33 PM EDT
[#41]
I always assumed it was a reference to hip width or the female hourglass shape.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:04:41 PM EDT
[#42]
Boomer checking in:
My dad said it was from “broad, child-bearing hips” but in med school, the anatomy/GYN teachers alleged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_ligament_of_the_uterus I think broad hips is more likely. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:06:15 PM EDT
[#43]
The south?
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:07:56 PM EDT
[#44]
Well, in alphabetical order the B words were used until the new C word was invented. Modern progress.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:10:38 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boomer checking in: My dad said it was from “broad, child-bearing hips” but in med school, the anatomy/GYN teachers alleged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_ligament_of_the_uterus I think broad hips is more likely. Meh, it’s all East/West anyways. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:11:55 PM EDT
[#46]
My pops called all female Marines Bams which he said stood for broad ass Marines.
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:13:08 PM EDT
[#47]
I used that term as a kid and still use it today. My wife doesn't bat an eye if I refer to some broad who almost nailed me on the highway, or some chick that went nuts at the grocery store.
When my kids hear it, they just shake their heads at my boomerisms. Don't know the etymology of the term, however. ETA: https://www.etymonline.com/word/broad Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump (1863) was changed to the long jump c. 1967. |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:14:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Width of ass. BAM = Female Marine = “Broad-assed Marine” That's "old corps" shit right there |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:14:44 PM EDT
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"Damn you're a pretty good looking broad"
Say it with a smile. Worked for me in my youth... |
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Posted: 1/4/2022 6:16:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I use that term all the time. Nicer than ‘bitches’, ‘chicks’ and sounds better to me than girl or woman. 40 I’m 50 and I use “bitches” and “chicks” all the time. My wife understands how I am lol. As far as the original question I always just assumed broad was in reference to their hips, as in a woman with broad hips has better breeding potential. But that was a completely uneducated guess and I never bother looking it up, just an assumption. |
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