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queer plunger. Queer plungers were men who faked drown- ing in order to be “rescued” by their accomplices, who “carried them to the Humane Society, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each.” The expression is first recorded in 1758. W. C. Fields did the same as a young man; he was hired by concessionaires to pretend that he was drowning so that crowds would gather and they would sell more food. He called himself a drowner. |