1990 — Hanoch Teller, A Midrash and a Masseh, Feldheim Publishers (1990), →ISBN, page 290:
As an obstetrics resident at Ohio State, he had had the opportunity to perform hundreds of circumcisions. "Do the circ, jerk," the third-year residents would command the lowly interns, but years after his internship, Jeff was still glad to be the "jerk."
1999 — Brian Morris, In Favour of Circumcision, University of New South Wales Press (1999), →ISBN, page 67:
l wrote to the editor of Circumcision telling him about my own adult circ.
2001 — Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus (2001), →ISBN, page 65:
During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'
Circumcision was the most common surgery and there was a circ list twice a week.
2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
If you want to rail against circ because it's done on unconsenting babies, go to.[sic]
2011 — Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Grand Central Publishing (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:
Aside from the actual hassle of booking the OR time and putting the child under general anesthesia, the circumcision itself is a minuscule procedure for the surgeons, barely worth mentioning except in diminutives. "Just a circ," they say. Or is it cirque?
[…]
The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
2011 — Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing (2011), →ISBN, page 50:
Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.
1998 May 18, Barbara Fraire, “Re: OT/formula moms love babies less??”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding[1] (Usenet):
Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision.
1998 October 26, Cheri, “Why is this so hard to grasp?”, in alt.circumcision[2] (Usenet):
All of the reasons we give for not circing a baby are not really about his sexuality as an adult, but about giving a child every opportunity to grow up whole.
2000 January 1, Wade & Litha, “Re: The dreaded circ issue rears its ugly head in my house!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy[3] (Usenet):
I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.
2000 January 13, John Pritchard, “Re: Circumcision and lubrication”, in alt.circumcision[4] (Usenet):
Back in 1996, the line was "the only men who know what they're talking about are the ones who were circed as adults, after getting some sexual experience."
2001 May 28, Parenttobe [username], “I am getting my son circed - count on it, jack!”, in alt.parenting.solutions[5] (Usenet):
I have a baby boy due in October and I am getting him circed ASAP! So, all you anti-circs out there can kiss my ass!
2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
2010 — Christian Zabriskie, "Graphics Let Teens OWN the Library", in Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging (ed. Robert G. Weiner), McFarland & Company (2010), →ISBN, page 171:
Surprisingly, the random graphics group cost still less, $11.40 on average, circulated the most with an average of 26 circs at time of record, and had far and away the lowest cost to circ ratio of any of the sets at 0.81 (less than a fourth of the base-line group).
Verb: "(informal, of a book, periodical, etc.) circulate"[edit]