POSSLQn.

Brit.

/ˈpɒslkjuː/, U.S.

/ˈpɑs(ə)lˌkju/

Forms: 1900s– posselcue, 1900s– POSSLQ, 1900s– PossLQ, 1900s– posslq.

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymons: English Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, Partner of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters.

Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of either Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters or Partner of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, apparently coined by Arthur J. Norton, a member of the U.S. Census Bureau, but never officially adopted.

U.S.

A person of the opposite sex living at the same address as another, esp. one who is a sexual partner but not a spouse.In early quots.: a (proposed) demographic classification comprising such people.

ΚΠ

1976 Boston Sunday Globe 12 Sept. a6/1 More and more Americans fall into the category the Census Bureau defines as POSSLQ.

1979 National Rev. (U.S.) 25 May 658/1 The Feds, as usual, screwed it up by creating POSSLQ, or Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, which could refer to married couples as well as unmarried or newborn twins, or just about anybody.

1984 Listener 27 Sept. 43/3 There is no shortage of pseudo-sociologese words for unmarried partners, mostly American inventions:..apartmate (one who shares an apartment but not necessarily the bed); and the way-out posselcue (an approximate acronym made from ‘Person of the opposite sex sharing living-quarters’).

1989 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 9 May 14 How do you tell your bridge club that your 25-year-old daughter no longer splits her rent with a sorority sister but with someone the Census Bureau calls a POSSLQ?

2002 Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) (Nexis) 14 Aug. They know he's tight with Jerry Berger and other Posties and that his POSSLQ is [the] deputy mayor.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	posslq
释义	POSSLQn. Brit. /ˈpɒslkjuː/, U.S. /ˈpɑs(ə)lˌkju/ Forms: 1900s– posselcue, 1900s– POSSLQ, 1900s– PossLQ, 1900s– posslq. Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymons: English Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, Partner of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of either Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters or Partner of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, apparently coined by Arthur J. Norton, a member of the U.S. Census Bureau, but never officially adopted. U.S. A person of the opposite sex living at the same address as another, esp. one who is a sexual partner but not a spouse.In early quots.: a (proposed) demographic classification comprising such people. ΚΠ 1976 Boston Sunday Globe 12 Sept. a6/1 More and more Americans fall into the category the Census Bureau defines as POSSLQ. 1979 National Rev. (U.S.) 25 May 658/1 The Feds, as usual, screwed it up by creating POSSLQ, or Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters, which could refer to married couples as well as unmarried or newborn twins, or just about anybody. 1984 Listener 27 Sept. 43/3 There is no shortage of pseudo-sociologese words for unmarried partners, mostly American inventions:..apartmate (one who shares an apartment but not necessarily the bed); and the way-out posselcue (an approximate acronym made from ‘Person of the opposite sex sharing living-quarters’). 1989 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 9 May 14 How do you tell your bridge club that your 25-year-old daughter no longer splits her rent with a sorority sister but with someone the Census Bureau calls a POSSLQ? 2002 Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) (Nexis) 14 Aug. They know he's tight with Jerry Berger and other Posties and that his POSSLQ is [the] deputy mayor. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1976
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