Slang dictionary
call of booty
[kawl 耻丑听v boo-tee]
What does听call of booty听mean?
Call of booty is a fanciful slang variant of a booty call, often as wordplay on the video game Call of Duty. It is often used as a pun听in the porn, burlesque, and pirate-themed novelty industries.
Where does call of booty come from?
The slang听booty call听dates to the 1990s.听The phrase denotes a phone a call or message arranging a time and place for casual sex. Booty call incorporates the slang term booty, once vulgar slang for 鈥渧agina鈥� in the early 1900s. The slang word became a milder term for 鈥渂uttocks鈥� in the 1920s. The word then went on to denote more generally both a 鈥渇emale body considered as a sex object鈥� and听鈥渢he act of sex.鈥�
In the 1980s, as听Esquire magazine tells the story, a Florida high-school student, Anthony Darlington, used payphones to 鈥渃all that booty,鈥� as he called it鈥攐r telephone females he knew for sex. Darlington explained call that booty听morphed to booty call,听gaining further usage after he and a fellow Army serviceman became the hip-hop duo Duice and released the song 鈥淏ooty Call鈥� in 1992.听Subsequently, other music artists released songs referencing “booty calls,” such as Da Ko Boyz’s 1994 release “Da Booty Call.”听
The playful variation听call of booty听has been used in written text since at least 2003. The phrase draws on the idiom call of duty, or the often heroic sacrifice by people in the military and law enforcement. Call of booty, then, is a pun that alludes both to听booty call and听to the summoning and deployment of one’s (usually a man’s) “heroic” sexual impulse.听
The pun achieved further currency after the 2003 release of the first-person-shooter video game听Call of Duty.听The release of subsequent game installments, comic books, action figures, and short films makes the franchise a likely candidate for helping the term spread. However, though听call of booty can be a听reference to booty call听when used by听Call of Duty听gamers, it is听usually just in playful reference to the video game, not to a call for sex鈥�booty here just being a juvenile term for “butt.”
Examples of call of booty
Who uses call of booty?
Call of booty to mean 鈥渂ooty call鈥� has taken off to some extent on social media since about 2011. The expression ostensibly appeals to younger males.听In one social-media example, a young man turns call of booty into an adjective to describe a woman鈥檚 buttocks: 鈥淒o they all come with the call of booty ass like you?鈥澨�
Gamers, especially young-adult males, ironically and non-sexually refer to the game Call of Duty听as听Call of Booty, as noted.听This humorous variant tends to be an in-joke among fans of the game, sometimes confusing outsiders.听
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sexual connotations of听call of听booty听lend the phrase to film titles in pornography.听Slightly less explicit and drawing on Call of Duty听is the notable听Call of Booty burlesque show featuring performers as popular video-game characters. An online shop selling pirate-theme merchandise, Call of Booty, takes advantage of booty‘s other meaning of “loot” and “treasure.”
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