social disease
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Noun[edit]
social disease (plural social diseases)
- (dated) A sexually transmitted disease
- 1938, “240 Students Submit to Wassermann Test”, in New York Times[1]:
- Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test.