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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
Youth culture? I'm 27 and I've heard people say "ho" in regards to whore for as long as I can remember. Certainly predates Ludacris and the current crop of hip hop artists.
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Then you are young, and have been hearing it that way since you were a teenager, and would thus qualify as part of the youth culture to which I refer.
I'm 28, and I've never heard it used in that way by anyone other than my students. It's one of a group of words that they seem to not understand have a mainstream meaning different from their slang usage (retarded, gay, and dance being others).
It's not surprising to me that a court reporter is unaware of a particular slang usage.