POSSLQ

The delicious bureaucratic euphemism POSSLQ is gone.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

The delicious bureaucratic euphemism POSSLQ is gone.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Perhaps that was not a word much in use in 1985, but POSSLQ was: “person of opposite sex sharing living quarters.”

Metaviews at Metazen Ann Bogle 2012

However, along the way as well as coming up with many of the possibilities already suggested by others, somebody suggested to us “POSSLQ” pronounced possle-queue.

name calling 2005

Saw more old Seattle and Portland friends at the banquet, not to mention running into a former POSSLQ and pasting on a smile for thirty long seconds or so.

Pet peeve of the week shunn 2004

Saw more old Seattle and Portland friends at the banquet, not to mention running into a former POSSLQ and pasting on a smile for thirty long seconds or so.

Pet peeve of the week shunn 2004

Her sweet POSSLQ (person of opposite sex sharing living quarters) bought dinner and drinks and made it a fun evening.

2000-08-03 10:30 pm nueces 2000

We're going to go visit her and her significant other (her POSSLQ -- person of opposite sex sharing living quarters) tomorrow.

1999-11-27 23:00:43 nueces 1999

We have never needed marriage for sex, the Fifties notwithstanding, and since the Seventies we have evolved a line on the Census to cover people with not-formalized arrangements-POSSLQ: Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters.

Dangerous Intersection 2008

POSSLQ ` partners of the opposite sex sharing living quarters 'is here but not tallyman or tallywoman, which, though not slang, are terms for the same thing that have been in the language for hundreds of years.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 1987