# You're on Jeopardy! -- what's you're answer for this clue?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-whats-youre-answer-for-this-clue/483046 "2009-01-26T12:28:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-whats-youre-answer-for-this-clue/483046/61 "2009-01-27T14:57:20Z")

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Jennings was embarrassed as hell to say “ho.” I think he was blushing up to his eyeballs. If he had thought of rake he would have said it.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-whats-youre-answer-for-this-clue/483046/62 "2009-01-27T15:34:57Z")

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“Rake” was the first thing that I thought. I knew there had to be a funny alternate answer, but “ho” didn’t occur to me.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-whats-youre-answer-for-this-clue/483046/63 "2009-01-27T17:12:43Z")

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> [@Captain\_Carrot](#):
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> I’ve never heard of a rake being anything other than what you use to put leaves in a pile, and I’m kind of amazed that so many people thought of it first. And I think that ‘ho’ _came_ from ‘whore’, but is no longer exclusively confined to that meaning. ‘Ho’ can easily mean ‘slut’, though I will concede that ‘ho’ and ‘hoe’ are different words.
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> What now? Slang isn’t words? That’s news to me.

My dictionary is a couple of years old, but it’s not in there. And no, slang is not always an actual word. “Dude” is a word; “nizzle” is not.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-whats-youre-answer-for-this-clue/483046/64 "2009-01-27T22:22:06Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> My dictionary is a couple of years old, but it’s not in there. And no, slang is not always an actual word. “Dude” is a word; “nizzle” is not.

But you said “It’s slang, not a word.” To me, that implies pretty strongly that ‘slang’ and ‘words’ are two different non-intersecting sets.

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