 By the mid-1600s, though, the word was firmly attached to women, although it didn't mean sexually active until the 1700s. And in the 1800s, a slut hole was a place for garbage. But that was in England, not the village of slut in Sweden. The current meaning of the word was popularized in 1975, of course, with the line, Jane, you ignorant slut, repeated on Saturday Night Live until every school kid had it in their arsenal.