flavor saver

n. facial hair, specifically a beard tuft beneath the lower lip. Subjects: English, Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion, Body, Slang

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Citations: 1986 [frye] Usenet: soc.singles (Sept. 25) “Lynn Gold wants to know “why oral sex…””: I have a tube of toothpaste to clean up with a little later…and a bar of soap to clean up the flavor saver—er—beard and moustache. 1996 [Kimberly Dewey] Usenet: rec.music.gdead (May 15) “Re: Did Jerry prefer Hostess or Drake’s?”: My housemate calls those little, tiny, under the lip pieces of beard (a la grunge musicians) a “flavor saver.” 1997 Bernie Lincicome Chicago Tribune (Oct. 5) “Bickering Bulls Will Be The Life Of The NBA” p. 1: And before we forget it, just what is that growth of hair under Jackson’s lip, anyhow? “Jud Buechler calls it a flavor saver,” Jackson said. “It’s my Frank Zappa look.” 1999 Jean Patteson Orlando Sentinel (Apr. 30) “Little Bit O’ Soul The Soul Patch—Barely There Facial Hair—Grows Popular” p. E1: Of all Piazza’s assets, the one most easily shared by other cool guys is that close-cropped triangle of chin hair known as a soul patch, or flavor saver or cookie duster. 2000 Colin Devenish Limp Bizkit (Oct.) p. 163: Fred’s belief is that Nature’s Cure will be the vehicle that drives him to become the only movie mogul with a backward hat and a flavor-saver. 2003 Andy Lochrie Fish Lips (Nov.) p. 163: That triangle of hair below my lower lip is called a flavor saver, soul patch, or nub buffer.

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MY boyfriend this so called ‘‘flavor saver’’ and he said it for when after u eat a girls ...vagina umm and some gets on it and saves some of the taste from it in this ‘‘flavor-save r’’ so u can have the taste left later and thats why they call it that, so I wanna know is this true? Is this why they call it that??????????????

by Crystal Ritter 26 May 08, 0859 GMT