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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Hero hag...

Clark: Chloe, how'd you get here so fast?
Chloe: Oliver's jet. Fringe benefit of being a hero hag.
Hero sidekick?
  

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Ummm... "sidekick" is a much nicer way of putting it. The only other way I've heard "hag" used in this sense is in the vulgar phrase "*** hag," which means an woman who socializes mostly with gay men.

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Ummm... "sidekick" is a much nicer way of putting it. The only other way I've heard "hag" used in this sense is in the vulgar phrase "*** hag," which means an woman who socializes mostly with gay men. According to the Urban Dictionary, this term now seems to mean any woman who happens to have a close gay friend she enjoys spending lots of time with, but when I learned the term (early 80s, I think
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So you mean it's actually a hero woman not a sidekick or what?
I mean Oliver (the man she mentions) is href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Arrow_(Oliver_Queen)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Arr
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I wouldn't interpret this as a "sidekick" in the same way that Robin is Batman's sidekick, no. I would just take it to mean that she spends a lot of time hanging out with Oliver. Almost the same as "the close friend of a hero" but with a slightly different connotation, one that puts Oliver in the superior position.

Are you working to translate these into some other language? In that cas
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Many thanks, D!Emotion: smile
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