jailbait

[jeyl-beyt]

noun

Slang.

1. a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.

jailbait

/ ˈdʒeɪlˌbeɪt /

noun

1. slang,  a young woman, or young women collectively, considered sexually attractive but below the age of consent

Word History and Origins

Origin of jailbait¹

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35; jail + bait

Example Sentences

After that, every bit of Nuzzi’s internet presence was up for grabs, from an old tweet that appeared to lust after Rick Perry, to a now-deleted MySpace profile for a pop singer named “Livvy” who released a single titled “Jailbait” and sure appears to be Nuzzi herself.

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A still-live—and very critical—Pop Justice blog post from 2010 comments on a press release for a single by Livvy titled “Jailbait.”

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In case you were wondering, a lot of the music has been scrubbed from MySpace, but the enterprising X user @wkbdyb uncovered the “Jailbait” audio through the cache of a now-deleted website for a music-production team known as Super Buddha, which hosted the “Jailbait” file, along with other songs they had produced for artists like Franz Ferdinand and Debbie Harry.

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A recently deleted 2010 tweet from Jay shares two separate remixes he did for “Jailbait,” titled “Electro Lolita” and “Just Enough Acid.”

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Allegedly, Roiland talked to two then-underage 16-year-olds who shared messages with NBC News that showed Roiland calling the girls "jailbait."

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