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Comment by hnick

6 years ago

It pre-dates the slang term by quite a while, unless it was around back in 1989? I don't recall seeing that online until the last decade or so.

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nereye  6 years ago

Wiktionary has it as far back as 1972, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint.

mcphage  6 years ago

Dictionary.com claims it dates back to at least 1977, but I have no idea.

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