What does "wear a hat on the butch" mean in thieves' jargon?

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What does "wear a hat on the butch" mean? Who uses this phrase? Where she came from? It is not difficult to guess that the phrase "he wore a hat on the butch" is prison jargon. But why is it increasingly being heard outside of prison?

Why did the phrase come into use in the wild?

Prisoners spend a significant part of their lives in places of deprivation of liberty. Despite the fact that modern convicts have a well-established illegal connection with the "mainland", the main problem of being in prison is the lack of communication and information. It is not surprising that in such a closed team their own traditions and concepts were formed, which are not found anywhere else. Including a special prison jargon, the so-called "fenya".

Recently, prison culture has begun to move beyond the bars. Teenagers and young people became actively interested in the prison theme, seeing in the fate of each prisoner some special romantic tragedy. It is not surprising that young people adopted their jargon from the thieves, without thinking at all what this or that phrase really means. It is a mistake to assume that prisoners arethe cultural bottom of society - among prisoners, even swearing is not very welcome, and insulting a friend from the criminal world with a swear word is a deadly insult to the honor and dignity of a respectable prisoner.

What does "wear a hat on the butch" mean?

Let's figure out what it means to "wear a hat on the butch"?

Bucha means "turmoil", "disorder" according to the explanatory dictionary, but in prison this word has somewhat changed its meaning. Bucha means "comb" in prison slang. The comb of a rooster is meant, and even people ignorant of prison jargon know that passive homosexuals are called "roosters" or "lowered" in prison. They become them for various reasons: someone, having come from outside, could not keep his mouth shut in front of his cellmates and told about his sexual adventures, someone was "lowered" because of too impudent behavior or a serious misconduct. The main meaning is that "cock" can be used by any convicts to satisfy their sexual needs.

"Hat" in prison slang means the male sexual organ. Now it is clear what it means to "wear a hat on the butch." Literally: "had homosexual contact with a lowered one."

Applies to whom

First of all, the phrase is applied to those "drooping roosters". But there is also an alternativeopinion on this matter. The phrase "wore a hat on a butch" is applied to a previously very respected person (for example, a thief in law, "watcher", "godfather"), who greatly disgraced himself and revealed his sexual contact with another man. Because of his high status, he cannot be "pushed out" (transferred to the category of "roosters"), like an ordinary convict, but he is removed from his previous "position", and in the future he may never count on respect.