{{other uses|Hello Sailor (disambiguation)}}

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"'''Hello, sailor'''" is a [[sexual proposition]] made to a sailor, presumably by a [[prostitute]] or [[promiscuous woman]] supposing the sailor to be male and [[sexually frustrated]] after a long time at sea. This usage has become a [[camp (style)|camp]] catchphrase, implying that sailors stay away at sea so long that they cannot tell the difference between a woman and a man in [[drag (clothing)|drag]], or a play on the common conception that many sailors are [[homosexual]]. ''Hello, Sailor'' in this usage is also the title of several books, [[Hello Sailor (novel)|including one]] by [[Eric Idle]] and another about gay life in the British [[merchant navy]], as well as a 2007 Liverpool museum exhibit about gay sailors.<ref name="liverpool">{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/about/news/newsarticle.asp?id=563&venue=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607164856/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mediacentre/displayrelease.aspx?id=563 |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead |title=Article on the 2007 Liverpool Museum exhibit}}</ref> The British comedy act [[Monty Python]], which includes [[Eric Idle]], also made use of the phrase in several of their sketches.

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== External links ==

* [https://tvtropes.org/Main/HelloSailor Hello Sailor] on [[TV Tropes]]

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