From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!zinfandel!berry
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: posslq - (nf)
Article-I.D.: zehntel.745
Posted: Sat Feb 12 01:19:32 1983
Received: Wed Feb 16 06:51:37 1983

#R:hou5e:-18900:zinfandel:9300004:000:307
zinfandel!berry    Feb 10 14:46:00 1983

POSSLQ derives from the 1980 census, where it was used to mean 
"Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters".  Some now use
it in preference to "main squeeze", "significant other", 
"boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever".

	Berry Kercheval
	Zehntel Inc.
	(decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
	(415)932-6900