"The Clap"

Gonorrhea is also commonly known by the slang term "the clap". One suggested etymology is from the old French word "clapier", meaning "brothel". Another suggested source for the term is from a notorious 18th century keeper of a brothel, Margaret Clap (better known as "Mother Clap"), though perhaps her name itself was derived from the slang term. It could also refer to the painful sting in the male urethra, which feels like the sting of a clap (as in clapping hands) when infected with the disease. Yet another suggested source refers to a traditional treatment used to clear the blockage in the urethra from gonorrheal pus, where the penis would be "clapped" on both sides simultaneously.[11][6]

The term "clap" may be derived from its diplococcoid microscopic morphology, which is suggestive of two cocci "clapping".

This term has, in recent years, come to be used by extension to refer to any unspecified sexually transmitted disease.

Other

• Dripping dick: Used mainly because of the discharge coming from the urethral opening of the penis.
• The term gonorrhea is built from the Greek prefix gono (seed) and suffix rrhea (to flow), and stems from the belief that the discharge contained semen.[12]

The popular AC/DC song "The Jack" is a story about a woman who gave lead singer Bon Scott gonorrhea. The 1975 "High Voltage" version of the song gives a more discreet description of what happened, but during the live performance of "The Jack" on the album, "If you want blood" he openly tells the crowd, even screaming the word, "Gonorrhea" after the first chorus.