space herpes

noun

A generic disease found in space, especially one transmissible by sexual encounters.

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Meanings

nounspace herpes (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountablehuman sciencesA generic disease found in space, especially one transmissible by sexual encounters.

    Ice Pirates “A ‘Star Wars’ rip-off with S&M scenes, twelfth-rate jokes, and ‘space herpes’”

    1985, “1984 entertainment: Movies to see and shun”, in Michiganensian, volume 89, page 60
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    Oh! Did we mention that there are families aboard the Enterprise? Yeah, it turns out there are. Because Starfleet did this study and realized that Space Herpes - also known as Kirk's Syndrome - spreads considerably slower if its officers have their spouses and children onboard their ship.

    2009 September 17, Wil Wheaton, quotee, “Wil Wheaton's ‘Memories of the Futurecast’ Engages us With Awesome”, in Wired

    “Space herpes got your tongue, boy?” The man came to a stop in front of him. ¶ For some reason the idea of a mutated venereal disease frightened him more than the idea this man could mug him or worse.

    2010, P. I. Barrington, Gail Delaney, J. Morgan, Borealis I
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