monthly visitor

English

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Noun

monthly visitor (plural monthly visitors)

1. (euphemistic slang) The menstrual period.
   • 2005, Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's Class‎^[1], Pan Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

     'The first thing was,' she lowered her voice, 'my, you know – monthly visitor – didn't appear. I didn't think much about it because I've never kept track of that very well. […]

   • 2006, Tawanna Johnson, US Girls, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 178:

     I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on.

   • 2014, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don't Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     Once my “monthly visitor” arrived, the sports I'd always played were out of the question. My symptoms were so severe and I couldn't risk being on a team that depended on me.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:menstruation.