Citations:body count

English citations of body count

Noun: "(slang) the total number of sexual partners of a given individual"

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• 2006, Emma Taylor & Lorelei Sharkey, Em & Lo's Rec Sex: An A-Z Guide to Hooking Up‎^[1], page 137:

  Convinced that he's a master of seduction, a roger dodger is obsessed with increasing his body count as if to prove to the world what a stud he is (plus, it beats jerking off to Internet porn every night).

• 2010 September 7, James Ellroy [pseudonym; Lee Earle Ellroy], chapter 1, in The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 3:

  The numbers don’t matter. It’s not a body count, a scratch-pad list or a boast. Statistics obscure intent and meaning. My toll is therefore ambiguous. Girlfriends, wives, one-night stands, paid companions. Chaste early figures. A high-stat blitz later on. Quantity means shit in my case.

• 2014, Cara Connelly, The Wedding Vow‎^[2], page 19:

  LeCroix was the last. Women threw themselves at him; his body count must number in the hundreds, or higher. But she wouldn't be one of them.

• 2016, Stephen Brown, Flowers and High Heels‎^[3], pages 43-44:

  Emma was with Michelle Minson, a girl who was notorious for sleeping her way up the social ladder in my town. She had just turned 14 the weekend before, and her body count was higher than her age. I was not one for slut shaming, but it did make me wonder: How could Emma talk so much about my body count and then go hang out with a girl whose count was eight times as much?

• 2017, Fiona Barton, The Child‎^[4], page 319:

  He'd discovered, at thirty-nine, that he was not the only wolf in the pack. Academia was full of Wills. He'd kept up his body count of willing girls, but they no longer queued.

• 2017, Jacey Jackson, Not Until He's Ready‎^[5], page 57:

  A bitch only keeps her body count low when she has hopes and dreams to be a wife someday.

• 2017, Pat Tucker, All About Him‎^[6], page 56:

  “Sounds to me like she just trying to get her body count up. I mean, if he love her, I wouldn’t say nothing, but between me and you, that shit ain’t cool.” He chuckled. “Shiiid, she couldn t be mine. Not like that. Baby, if you out there giving it up, you need to drop my last name is how I look at it.”

• 2021 December 14, Karen Kellock, UNDERHANDEDLY CLEVER, CHAMPION GUIDES, →ISBN, page 27:

  [He wants] sex even if he has the woman he wants, just to increase his body count. He strings you along just for the sex. Tell you what you wanna hear but never follow thru, heck! Some modern women go so far as paying his bills and car payments.

• 2023 September 21, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 155:

  […] whether or not a woman should disclose her body count to her new boyfriend. Body count, for those readers who have enjoyed an enviably sheltered life, is the contemporary term for the number of men with whom she has shared physical intimacy. These women seem to experience considerable discomfort when asked about their "body count."

Non-human fatalities

• 2014 December 31, “End inhumane and damaging wolf hunt: column”, in Wausau Daily Herald:

  Wisconsin's third wolf hunt recently ended, with a body count of 154 wolves — down from 250 the year before.

• 2019 July 11, “Australian Cats Kill 2 Billion Wild Animals Each Year”, in Live Science:

  When cats roam free, small wild animals die. And the body count in Australia exceeds 2 billion native animals per year.

• 2021 October 26, James William Gibson, “Must Montana’s Wolves Die?”, in Earth Island Journal Home:

  Obviously unreported deaths won’t be considered as the FWP examines its wolf body count.

• 2023 April 15, Jaina Rodriguez Grey, “Dyson Ball Animal 3 Extra Review: High Suction, High Capacity”, in Wired:

  My rabbit Lola has a body count. She has killed. She knows what it is to see the light go out of a vacuum's eyes.

Other

non-victims

• 2019 April 26, David Sigler, “2 Jane Austen: Comedy against Happiness”, in Erin Goss, editor, Jane Austen and Comedy (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850), Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 56:

  Mrs. Phillips, taking after Austen’s letters, tallies ducks by the couple, making effectively a body count—it’s three couple of ducks rather than six or a half dozen.

• 1984, “Oversight on the Domestic Volunteer Service Act: Hearing ...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education, page 23:

  ...based upon a February visit of GAO to Houston where they were not keeping statistics, the figure from GAO, as I was told yesterday, is that Houston has only 11 jobs for Vietnam veterans. No, they haven't kept a body count, but our estimate is far higher.