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traces both the descriptive usage of "cocksucker" and the adjectival form of "cocksucking" to 1865 in the United States. It further traces the use of "cocksucker" as a "generalised term of abuse" to 1918 in the United States, and cites to uses of both terms in print in the 1950s by writers including
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