Re: (OT) Translation: Trolls and their Management

Roger Mills wrote:
>
> Rik Roots wrote:
> > (re troll in the fishing sense)
> >
> > Indeed - this is where (I think) the gay slang term
> > "trolling" comes from - a man on the hunt for sex will
> > troll the bars for some action.
>
> Haven't heard that usage in my vast (though out of date)
> wanderings...maybe it's UK? However, some 20 years
> ago a friend in Indiana sent me a clipping from his local
> paper, in which a judge referred to prostitutes "trolling for
> trade" (or tricks, I disremember). He thought it quite
> unique at the time.

I have heard people say, "He was trolling for hookers" meaning
he was driving slowly down Cass Avenue in Detroit looking
for prostitutes.

--Ph. D.