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pan-pan, n. Now hist.
Brit. |ˈpanˌpan|, U.S. |ˈpænˌpæn|
Plural unchanged, -s
[‹ Japanese panpan freelance prostitute, of uncertain origin; perhaps > n.3).
Japanese pan-pan is not attested in Japanese dictionaries until 1947, but the word is reported (1954) to have been in pre- 1941 Japanese naval use in Micronesia, and was encountered by U.S. GIs immediately on arrival in Japan in 1945.]
In Japan: a Japanese woman consorting with foreign men, esp. with Allied soldiers during the Allied occupation (1945–52); spec. a prostitute working independently on the streets. Freq. attrib., esp. in pan-pan girl.
1949Let. in J. W. Bennett Doing Photog. & Social Res. in Allied Occupation of Japan (2003) (Electronic text) Hordes of GIs and their teenage girl friends, most of the latter being from lowerclass families and who have taken a rather rough and garish aspect, at times being hardly distinguishable from the ‘pan pan’, or amateur prostitutes. 1950Chicago Daily Tribune 3 Jan. 17/1 American wives have begun to comment acidly on the growing numbers of..soldiers strolling with Japanese girls on the Ginza... (The Japanese call such girls pan-pan girls.) 1952J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential iv. xxxiii. 387 There emerged street prostitutes called ‘pan-pan’. 1960Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 25/2 The survey found far more indignation over the pan-pan prostitutes than over the traditional system of the organized houses. 1993S. Masaya tr. S. Sanki Kobe Hotel 55 Women would go down to the city with clothing..to..sell it to the panpans..[and] buy American cigarettes as souvenirs. 2003K. Sakamoto One Hundred Million Hearts xiii. 260 Every day she walked past street urchins playing in the puddles, mimicking the one-legged soldiers hobbling past.., or the gaudily made-up pan-pan girls. |