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Cornholer
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a gay man
Offensive
Slang
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
cornholers
What is the origin of the term "cornholer" and how is it used?
Cornholer is a slang term that emerged in mid-20th-century American English as a crude label for a gay man. The word comes from the noun cornhole, which originally referred to the anus, and the verb to cornhole, meaning to engage in anal sex. By extension, calling someone a cornholer identified them by sexual behavior, often in a mocking or insulting way. The term is derogatory and vulgar, used to belittle or demean men for their sexuality, and it is considered offensive in almost all contexts outside historical or critical discussion of slang.
Examples
That cornholer laughed while flirting at the bar.



























