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by bee_rider 1470 days ago
The "dirty" use seems pretty silly (sounds like something out of a crass 80's movie or something), but I can't really imagine using it in a non-dirty manner either. I mean I know people have hunted and trapped beavers, but when the capture them they don't just, like, thwack them with a giant cleaver, right? Would ruin the pelt if nothing else.
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failTide 1470 days ago
Not sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO, you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.seri...

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turtledove 1470 days ago
TIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and not leave it to beaver.

Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver, beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.

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bee_rider 1470 days ago
I wasn't -- I was not aware that his last name was Cleaver, haha.
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