In a sexual context, I've only ever encountered the word as part of the phrase "notch on a bedpost", usually in a sentence along the lines of "X is just collecting notches on zir bedpost" or "X was just thinking of Y as a notch on zir bedpost". I have always interpreted it as meaning that X wants to have sex with as many people as possible and is keeping a running score, not as meaning that Y is on some list of particularly desirable people that X and others are competing for; anything involving competition strikes me as being in a different category. I don't recall that I ever agreed with the speaker's assessment, either; I think I'd have to be told by X zirself before I'd assume it was correct.
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Date: 2002-08-26 10:07 am (UTC)