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disco bunny en · NOUN

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1. (derogatory, slang) A (typically young) gay man who frequently clubs or discos.
   • One man recalled that the gay bars and clubs were an important draw for him to the area, stating that “of course it was the bars, the bars and the discos and everything. ... Not that I was a disco bunny. That was gay life.” 2009, Amanda K. Baumle, D’Lane Compton, Dudley L. Poston Jr., chapter 4, in Same-Sex partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation, SUNY Press, page 89:
   • I resisted disinhibition probably because I was trying to get serious about being an art critic right at the time I became a disco bunny. I fought the effect of the drugs I took. I thought at the disco. 2016, Douglas Crimp, chapter 6, in Before Pictures, University of Chicago Press, page 192:
   • He was a disco bunny hanging out with musicians and decorators and people with money. I can still see him—silk shirt unbuttoned down just far enough, he’s having a good hair day. He has all the right connections. 1994, Susan Bergman, chapter 9, in Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family, Warner Books, page 154:
   • Phil said, “Well, consensual pig farming is one thing, but getting involuntarily stabbed to death by your trick is definitely something else. A lot of the disco bunnies are scared shitless. Especially out at Trucky’s. Blount is the one who did it, isn’t he?” 2003, Richard Stevenson, chapter 3, in Death Trick, Southern Tier Editions, page 29:
   • Now here’s a confession: I was a disco bunny in my youth, I was International Mr. Leather in 1986 (and therefore guilty, guilty of The Cult of Masculinity), and today I am happily married (for twenty two years) to another queer radical. 1998 January 14, Scott Tucker, “Suburbia as Utopia: The Destiny of Gay Men?”, in Gay Community News, volume 23, numbers 2-3, pages 42-43:
2. (broadly, slang) A woman who frequents clubs and or discos.
   • "And he's having an affair, too," Lawton said. "Little bitty girl, size six. Disco bunny is how I picture her." 1999, James W. Hall, chapter 24, in Body Language, St. Martin's Paperbacks, page 265:
   • And hes splashed all over the front pages of the tabloids this morning, arm in arm with some smiling disco bunny with a silicone chest and whitened teeth. She looks about twelve, I can’t stand it. Her voice was wobbly, close to tears. 2001, Laura Lockington, chapter 6, in Capers in the Sauce, Century, page 110:
   • I was determined to stand there until she came out and took it back, that she was through with me and was gonna go out with that lame disco bunny Julie Milton, the cool chick with the hip polyester clothes, who probably read The Joy of Lesbian Sex and cut to the chase instead of standing there staring at the unexpected vision of breasts. 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Press, page 48:

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