trouser department

From what Mel had said about Garth's attributes in the trouser department, he'd keep falling over his own equipment.

Rose wondered if there was something wrong with him in the trouser department. There was a thing her father used to say about boys pulling their foreskin back or it wouldn't work properly when the time came.

1997, Alina Reyes, David Watson, Behind Closed Doors:

The Hummersexual is a man so devoid of attractiveness, and so lacking in the trouser department that he only has a chance of getting laid by getting behind the wheel of the biggest, most ridiculously oversized and overpriced passenger vehicle money can buy

2009, Kate Copstick, Jamie Maclean, Sex and the Recession:

And I know the location of a treasure so splendid that just breathing its name in your ear will bring tears of joy to your eyes and a definite bulge in the trouser department.

2010, Simon R. Green, The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny:

(euphemistic) A man's penis, or its attributes.

housuosasto

euphemism of man's penis formed with "trousers" and "department"


n-bomb

From n (“abbreviation of nigger”) + bomb (“(euphemism marker)”).

com

abbreviation of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">nigger</i>

ALF’s racist N-bomb blooper reel has inspired another member of the 1980s sitcom cast to air an expletive of his own.

2010 December 28, Soraya Roberts, “John LaMotta, ‘ALF’ star, denigrates 1980s show after N-bomb outtakes go viral”, in New York Daily News:

(slang, euphemistic) The word nigger or nigga.


friendship with benefits

en-noun

friendship with benefits (countable and uncountable, plural friendships with benefits)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A platonic friendship where the partners engage in sexual activities, but do not consider themselves a couple.


syphon the python

en-verb

syphon the python (third-person singular simple present syphons the python, present participle syphoning the python, simple past and past participle syphoned the python)

syphons the python (present singular third-person)
syphoning the python (participle present)
syphoned the python (participle past)
syphoned the python (past)

From a supposed resemblance of the penis to a snake, a large variety of which is the python.

(euphemistic slang, of a male) To urinate.

(euphemistic slang, of a male) To ejaculate.


drop the kids off at the pool

drop the kids off at the pool (third-person singular simple present drops the kids off at the pool, present participle dropping the kids off at the pool, simple past and past participle dropped the kids off at the pool)

drops the kids off at the pool (present singular third-person)
dropping the kids off at the pool (participle present)
dropped the kids off at the pool (participle past)
dropped the kids off at the pool (past)
drop the kiddies off at the pool (alternative)

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From humorous association of the toilet bowl with a swimming pool; slight wordplay regarding drop and drop off (figurative).

(humorous, euphemistic) To defecate into a toilet.


self-pleasure

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self-pleasure

self-pleasure (third-person singular simple present self-pleasures, present participle self-pleasuring, simple past and past participle self-pleasured)

self-pleasures (present singular third-person)
self-pleasuring (participle present)
self-pleasured (participle past)
self-pleasured (past)

(euphemistic) To pleasure oneself; masturbate.


bushwah

Uncertain, first attested in the 1900s. Perhaps from dialectal bodewash (“dried buffalo dung”) or by Etymology 2, from bourgeois. Subsequently used as a minced oath variant of bullshit, though bullshit itself is only attested from the 1910s.

These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense.

1925, George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude, page 230:

This death or glory stuff is all bushwah, except with nuts; and those, you don’t want. An outfit of smart guys, always trying to figure the opposition before the opposition figures them; they can take, any time, any day, an outfit of nuts wound up to crash their planes into something.

1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, page 258:

“[…] They’re not taken in by all that socialist bullsh—” He cleared his throat. “Bushwah.”

1983, Theodore V. Olsen, Red is the River, →ISBN, page 102:

Oftentimes proof is only in the speaking, but the people listening are pros with tremendous experience in flight, and they can pick out the bushwah instantly.

1991, Martin Caidin, Ghosts of the Air: True Stories of Aerial Hauntings, →ISBN, page 42:

(US) Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.


frack

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

fracks (present singular third-person)
fracking (participle present)
fracked (participle past)
fracked (past)
frac (alternative)
frak (alternative)

Original and alternative spelling for English frak. See frak.

Frack! The impact must have twisted the bulkhead just enough to jam the door.

1978 December 17, “Fire in Space”, in Battlestar Galactica, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Lieutenant Boomer (Herbert Jefferson, Jr.):

“Stupid fracking hammer! Where is it?” While David and Matt had been bowled to the back of the autobus, she'd fought her way to the front—and the emergency cutoff switch. This was supposed to stop the bus dead in its tracks.

2001 May 1, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Bill McCay, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cold Case, Penguin, →ISBN:

"Not by a single, stupid, fracking day."

2014 August 5, Mary Behre, Guarded, Penguin, →ISBN, page 50:


ladyparts

(informal, euphemistic) The breasts and/or genitalia of a woman.

(transgender slang, euphemistic) The penis of a trans woman.


other virginity

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(euphemistic) The state of having never participated in anal sex.


shut the front door

What in the Sam Hill just happened to him? Shut the front door.

(minced oath, euphemistic, slang) shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)


loss of life

en-noun

loss of life (countable and uncountable, plural losses of life)

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The new age comes through the death of Jesus, and his loss of life brings abundance to everyone.

2004, Susan Miller, Women in Mark's Gospel, page 137:

Chief Superintendent Alasdair Robinson said the device left below the M1 motorway was "sophisticated and substantial" and could have caused huge devastation and loss of life.

2011 April 10, Henry McDonald, The Guardian:


trouser cough

(euphemistic, humorous) A flatus; an emission of digestive gases from the anus.


well-padded

en-adj

well-padded (comparative more well-padded, superlative most well-padded)

more well-padded (comparative)
most well-padded (superlative)

But the majority of its members were very much alive and still well-padded; and, far from being on a pale diet, were deeply appreciative of the famous culinary resources of the chef, and showed it.

1921, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 2, in The Sisters-In-Law:

A graduate of the University of Houston's Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, the well-padded Raulston, nicknamed Fat Cook by the rigs' crews, makes these changes subtly and slowly.

1986 April 13, Mimi Sheraton, “In the Gulf: a Robust Cuisine”, in Time:

(euphemistic, of a person) Fat, corpulent, pudgy.


one-handed

From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ān-hende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).

The kind of story that you just know was written one-handed

(euphemistic, often humorous) While masturbating.

Using only one hand; one-handedly.
While masturbating.


chesterfield rugby

From chesterfield, a generic term for "sofa" in Canadian English, and rugby, a contact sport, alluding to the physical nature of sex.

As to necking and petting, as a kind of part time recreation, frankly, it's a failure. You'll do better to dance together or play tennis than to use up all that ebulience in what we used to call chesterfield rugby.

1973 August 25, Doris Clark, “Successful Living”, in The Leader-Post:

"There are so many adults with fitness problems today because, other than a little chesterfield rugby, they never exercise," said Allan Little, Edmonton YMCA supervisor.

1975 November 13, “Lazy Muscles: Fitness Scares Them”, in The Montreal Gazette:

(Canada, idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual activity.


knock boots

en-verb

knock boots (third-person singular simple present knocks boots, present participle knocking boots, simple past and past participle knocked boots)

knocks boots (present singular third-person)
knocking boots (participle present)
knocked boots (participle past)
knocked boots (past)

Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.

You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute

1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa:

Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.

1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250:

After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice

2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:

(slang, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.


good-time girl

good-time girls (plural)
goodtime girl (alternative)
good time girl (alternative)

"I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"

1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time:

Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.

1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-03:

The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.

2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2011-06-03:

(euphemistic) A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.

Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:

We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.

2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:

In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.

2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:


goldang

"If I buy the goldang cow," he's thinking to himself, "then I can sell the goldang cow, whenever I goldang please."

1990, Joe Bob Briggs, The cosmic wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs:


Roman hands and Russian fingers

en-noun

Roman hands and Russian fingers pl (plural only)

Jocular modification of roaming hands and rushing fingers.

He might turn in test papers that were utterly blank—or blank except for a large, decorative question-mark—and Mrs. Douglas had discovered it was best to keep him away from the girls because of his Roman hands and Russian fingers, but he was quiet, so quiet that there were times when he might have been taken for a big lump of clay that had been crudely fashioned to look like a boy.

"Let's just say he had Roman hands and Russian fingers," she said. "I made him take me back home."

2002, Lon Leatherland, A Town Called Woodbridge, page 51:

I described them as foreigners — with Roman hands and Russian fingers. If that's all they wanted, they could just hit the dusty trail. I double-dated some, but decided I wasn't going out by myself with a boy again.

2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, page 366:

(humorous or euphemistic) A tendency towards unwanted sexual touching.


give one's all

en-verb

give one's all (third-person singular simple present gives one's all, present participle giving one's all, simple past gave one's all, past participle given one's all)

gives one's all (present singular third-person)
giving one's all (participle present)
gave one's all (past)
given one's all (participle past)

The Cemeterial Division . . . has taken up the huge task of establishing contact with the mothers or widows of the 30,000 American soldiers who gave their all and whose bodies rest in graves across the sea.

1929 April 10, “Plans for War Mothers Pilgrimage Started”, in Rochester Evening Journal and the Post Express, retrieved 2011-06-18, page 26:

Police officers expressed shock at the news of their fellow officer's death. "He gave his all; he literally gave his all," said Officer Edward Looney.

2005 August 4, Kareem Fahim, “Sniper Kills New York Police Officer in Iraq”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-17:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To lose one's life while making the utmost effort with full commitment.


lose one's life

lose one's life (third-person singular simple present loses one's life, present participle losing one's life, simple past and past participle lost one's life)

loses one's life (present singular third-person)
losing one's life (participle present)
lost one's life (participle past)
lost one's life (past)

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The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):

I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

“[H]is own wife lost her life with an accident that come to a horse that hadn't room to turn right with a harrow between the bush and the wall.”

1893, William Butler Yeats, “The Friends of the People of Faery”, in The Celtic Twilight:

“Do you think, Sir, that you could possibly send me on some mission for the paper? . . . anything that had adventure and danger in it. . . .” “You seem very anxious to lose your life.”

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

[E]nemy fighters killed 2,320 of the troops who lost their lives in Iraq through December 2.

2006 December 30, Unmesh Kher, “By the Numbers: The U.S. Death Toll”, in Time:

(euphemistic) To die, especially to be killed during involvement in an activity or in some other undertaking.


out of the picture

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Dead, missing, or incarcerated.


coprophagous grin

en-noun

coprophagous grin (plural coprophagous grins)


comfort station

comfort station (plural comfort stations)

From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:


friend of Bill W.

friend of Bill W. (plural friends of Bill W.)

friends of Bill W. (plural)
friend of Bill (alternative)
friend of Bill's (alternative)

An allusion to William Griffith Wilson (1895–1971), known as “Bill W.”, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.

He was a friend of Bill W. and had just celebrated Ten Years of Sobriety.

1994 May 31, “Obituary: Middletown BRIAN EDWARD CRAWFORD”, in Providence Journal, USA, page D10:

The Sandy Beaches cruise offers Alcoholics Anonymous meetings billed simply as Friends of Bill W.

2003 February 23, Lynne Margolis, “Delbert McClinton rocks the boat for music lovers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2011-07-08:

Most people in recovery know that asking if you are a friend of Bill W. is an anonymous way to identify yourself as a member of AA.

2004, Jack Canfield et al., Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul,, →ISBN, page 49:

Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A recovering alcoholic, especially one who is a member of the organization Alcoholics Anonymous.


of a certain age

Perhaps a calque of French d'un certain âge.

Near-synonyms: (indeterminate) getting on in years, on in years, long in the tooth; (past middle age) older, senior, elderly, geriatric; see also Thesaurus:elderly

a lady of a certain age

Now that I'm of a certain age, I need reading glasses to see up close.

Women of a certain age / They learn to rely and your job is responses / Having played the mating game

1989, Graham Lyle, Albert Hammond, “I Don't Wanna Lose You”, in Foreign Affair, performed by Tina Turner:

(euphemistic, chiefly of a person) Middle-aged or older.


number three

(euphemistic) The act of masturbation, especially when done in a bathroom.


send to the glue factory

en-verb

send to the glue factory (third-person singular simple present sends to the glue factory, present participle sending to the glue factory, simple past and past participle sent to the glue factory)

sends to the glue factory (present singular third-person)
sending to the glue factory (participle present)
sent to the glue factory (participle past)
sent to the glue factory (past)

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Since glue was traditionally made by boiling down the hooves of a horse.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To kill, usually a horse.


gentleman cow

One day he attempted to help out by leading a gentleman cow back to the ranch, a distance of about a mile.

1914, “Catering industry employee”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 23, page 44:


lady of light virtue

en-noun

lady of light virtue (plural ladies of light virtue)

(euphemistic) A woman with lax sexual morals; a slut.


dadgummit

Dadgummit! That was the last dollar I had.


Jiminy Cricket

Euphemistic alteration of Jesus Christ. The cartoon character was named for the minced oath, which is recorded from the early 1800s onwards.

jiminy cricket (alternative)
Jiminy Crickets (alternative)
jiminy crickets (alternative)
Jimminy Cricket (alternative)
jimminy cricket (alternative)
Jimminy Crickets (alternative)
jimminy crickets (alternative)


pay the debt of nature

en-verb

pay the debt of nature (third-person singular simple present pays the debt of nature, present participle paying the debt of nature, simple past and past participle paid the debt of nature)

pays the debt of nature (present singular third-person)
paying the debt of nature (participle present)
paid the debt of nature (participle past)
paid the debt of nature (past)

The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.

1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs, volume 1, page 36:

Ten years after he had seen his son married^([sic]), become a church member, and give up his carnal delights, old Deacon Smith paid the debt of nature. His last days he always called his best days.

1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 76:


nucking futs

The neurologist thinks I'm nucking futs and wants to send me over to the psychiatric unit for evaluation.

1999, Suzanne Forster, Every breath she takes:

(slang, humorous, euphemistic) Fucking nuts; completely insane.


Botany Bay fever

What!—me not know my * * * Testament! Why!—it's the only * * * book you get a word of when you're nursing for Botany Bay fever.

1914, William Frend De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 410:

(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) Penal servitude; transportation.


clusterfrack

All that said, Honeycomb tablets do support a wide variety of video codecs, and because they don't interface with the clusterfrack that is iTunes, it's much easier to rip DVDs and quickly place video files in your Android video folder.

2011 December, Jon Phillips, “Tackling the Tablet Conundrum”, in Maximum PC, Future US, page 26:


job creator

Candidate Nixon, in the final speech of his campaign swing, said tonight "job creators" would hold back on new investments if "they are confronted with the possibility of being sandbagged by a hostile Congress." (October 31, 1954)

(euphemistic) A wealthy person; a person with control over sufficient resources to employ many other people.


kiss off

kiss off (third-person singular simple present kisses off, present participle kissing off, simple past and past participle kissed off)

kisses off (present singular third-person)
kissing off (participle present)
kissed off (participle past)
kissed off (past)

We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, Get used to it. If you don't like it, kiss off.

1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting anonymous poster, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 3:

(intransitive, euphemistic, usually imperative) to leave; get lost, beat it


peculiar institution

"Peculiar" here does not mean strange. It means "peculiar" (particular) to a certain area, in this case the Southern United States.

He became a great drunkard and a great gambler (vices intimately connected with the "peculiar institution,") and was obliged to give up his business.

1855, Peter Randolph, Illustrations of the 'Peculiar Institution':

He documents the extensiveness of the peculiar institution's presence throughout the region and establishes a much more realistic context for the emergences of abolitionist sentiments and the various forms it took.

2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction, page 3:


frickle

After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.

"A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world.

2018, Tara Sivec, At the Stroke of Midnight:

But looking at the above, we can start to understand why when we say "virgin," we mean virgin in the sense that we know virgin today—that she didn't do the old frickle-frackle with Joseph.

2020, Scott Douglas, Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born:


shizzle

2006 October 6, Republicans@Hell.com, “Drudge Report - Pedophile Friendly and full of Shizzle!”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):


backhouse

backhouses (plural)
back-house (alternative)
back house (alternative)

→ French: bécosse

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BACK'HOUSE... a necessary.

1847, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language:

[…] the chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse […]

1939, Christopher Morley, chapter II, in Kitty Foyle, page 23:

(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


V card

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Metaphoric, suggesting the type of card that represents one's membership in a club.

After a year of seriously dating, she was ready to hand over her V card and make him her first.

2012, Melissa de la Cruz, Sun-kissed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


MAP

en-noun

MAP (countable and uncountable, plural MAPs)

minor-attracted person
minor-attracted person#English

(euphemistic) Initialism of minor-attracted person.


fustercluck

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God, what an unbelievable fustercluck, she thought, shaking her head from side to side on her pile of pillows as she remembered Sophie's tear-streaked face as she ran down the block and out of sight.

2009, Jennifer Banash, In Too Deep, page 225:

Writers for Gossip Girl have come up with fustercluck, motherchucker, and basshole.

“A fustercluck indeed,” he agreed, and she shrugged as a wet line ran down her spine.

(euphemistic, slang) Spoonerism of clusterfuck


motherchucker

From mother + chucker, as a rhyming bowdlerization of motherfucker. Popularized by the American television series Gossip Girl in the late 2000s, but reportedly used by Britney Spears in a 2005 Details article.

Ordinarily we would say that no one would actually say, as Blair does, "Damn that motherchucker!" […]

2008 February 9, Jessica Pressler, Chris Rovzar, “Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love”, in Daily Intelligencer:

"I see a few motherchuckers in the crowd."

2009, Jason Pinter, The Darkness, Mira, →ISBN:

We’ve spent the last four years of our lives cursing the Patrick McMullan Company Website. We love Patrick and the boys dearly, but entire mountain ranges could have formed in the time it took that motherchucker to load.

2009 July 1, Jada Yuan, “Glory Be! Patrick McMullan Redesigned His Website!”, in New York Magazine:

Die Hard has been often imitated but never duplicated. Willis good, Rickman better. Yippee-ki-yay, motherchucker.

2009 August 21, Stephen King, “Stephen King's Reliable Rentals”, in Entertainment Weekly:

Nate being a motherchucker +20 –THEYCALLMESTACEY

2012 April 20, Sarah Lawson, “Gossip Girl Recap Recap: Salon of the Dead”, in Vulture:

(euphemistic, slang, usually derogatory) Motherfucker.


futhermucker

futhermuckers (plural)
fothermucker (alternative)

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"Fuck off, futhermucker."

1975, Sheila Ballantyne, Norma Jean, the Termite Queen, Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 72:

"What a dumb futhermucker. What a waste of everybody's time."

1986, Carol Taylor, A Third Story, Lace Publications, →ISBN, page 81:

[…] Swelling's going down already. Just hurt like a futhermucker for a few minutes."

2011, Lisa McMann, Cryer's Cross, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 72:

(euphemistic, slang) Spoonerism of motherfucker


join the choir invisible

en-verb

join the choir invisible (third-person singular simple present joins the choir invisible, present participle joining the choir invisible, simple past and past participle joined the choir invisible)

joins the choir invisible (present singular third-person)
joining the choir invisible (participle present)
joined the choir invisible (participle past)
joined the choir invisible (past)

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From a poem by George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible, further popularized by the "dead parrot" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to see its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

1969 December 7, “Full Frontal Nudity”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese), Dead Parrot sketch:

Made me wonder whether I should invest in a portable MRI unit to monitor birds about to join the choir invisible for any signs of brain activity.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 30:

(intransitive, chiefly humorous, euphemistic) To die.


fall off the back of a truck

fall<,,fell,fallen> off the back of a truck

fall off the back of a truck (third-person singular simple present falls off the back of a truck, present participle falling off the back of a truck, simple past fell off the back of a truck, past participle fallen off the back of a truck)

falls off the back of a truck (present singular third-person)
falling off the back of a truck (participle present)
fell off the back of a truck (past)
fallen off the back of a truck (participle past)
fall off the back of a lorry (alternative)

EN-AU ck1 fall off the back of a truck.ogg

The movie is still in theaters, but I got a copy that fell off the back of a truck.

(idiomatic, Australia, US, euphemistic) Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession through illegal or otherwise dubious means.


house of accommodation

en-noun

house of accommodation (plural houses of accommodation)

As soon then as the evening began, and the shew of a shop was shut, the academy open'd; the mask of mock-modesty was completely taken off, and all the girls deliver'd over to their respective calls of pleasure or interest with their men; and none of that sex was promiscuously admitted, but only such as Mrs. Cole was previously satisfied with their character and discretion. In short, this was the safest, politest, and, at the same time, the most thorough house of accommodation in town

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:


goshawfully

en-adv

goshawfully (comparative more goshawfully, superlative most goshawfully)

more goshawfully (comparative)
most goshawfully (superlative)

The media, print as well as electronic, are so goshawfully deficient in the fundamentals of the subject that David Beckham's picture with an Adidas logo has been sought to be presented as an example of Fifa's liberal outlook […]

2002, Festival, Statesman Limited, page 125:

(euphemistic, rare) In a manner that is goshawful.


bih

You don't want no problem, want no problem with me, bih!

2016, Chancelor Bennett, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., Tauheed Epps, Ivan Jackson, “No Problem” (track 2), in Coloring Book, performed by Chance the Rapper:

Shoulda vaselined that bih. Forgot to vaseline that bih.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:

(African-American Vernacular, euphemistic) A bitch.


have the painters in

en-verb

have the painters in (third-person singular simple present has the painters in, present participle having the painters in, simple past and past participle had the painters in)

has the painters in (present singular third-person)
having the painters in (participle present)
had the painters in (participle past)
had the painters in (past)

(UK, slang, euphemistic, humorous) To menstruate; to be on one's period.


by gummy

(euphemistic, dated) By God!: expressing wonderment.


occupy oneself

occupy oneself (third-person singular simple present occupies oneself, present participle occupying oneself, simple past and past participle occupied oneself)

occupies oneself (present singular third-person)
occupying oneself (participle present)
occupied oneself (participle past)
occupied oneself (past)


smallest room in the house

en-noun

smallest room in the house (plural not attested)

(euphemistic) The bathroom; the room containing the toilet.


gentlemen's club

gentlemen's club (plural gentlemen's clubs)

gentlemen's clubs (plural)
gentleman's club (alternative)


chemical imbalance

chemical imbalance (plural chemical imbalances)

The sense "mental illness" is due to the fact that some mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

Warden, Rob and Drizin, Steven (2009) True Stories of False Confessions, →ISBN, page 28: “Anyone who knew him well would suspect he had a chemical imbalance. He had been unhappy recently. And there was a history of suicide in the family; his mother had tried to kill herself.”


chemically imbalanced

en-adj

chemically imbalanced (comparative more chemically imbalanced, superlative most chemically imbalanced)

more chemically imbalanced (comparative)
most chemically imbalanced (superlative)


know someone in the biblical sense

en-verb

know<,,knew,known> someone in the biblical sense

know someone in the biblical sense (third-person singular simple present knows someone in the biblical sense, present participle knowing someone in the biblical sense, simple past knew someone in the biblical sense, past participle known someone in the biblical sense)

knows someone in the biblical sense (present singular third-person)
knowing someone in the biblical sense (participle present)
knew someone in the biblical sense (past)
known someone in the biblical sense (participle past)
know someone in the Biblical sense (alternative)

En-au-know someone in the biblical sense.ogg

From the use of know in the Bible. Some Bible translations, such as the King James Version, translate the Hebrew word יָדַע (yādaʿ) as know even in sexual contexts, giving rise to lines like “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived.”

James may not have known women in the biblical sense; but had Adams read the novels with care, he would have been agreeably surprised by the keen insights on the feminine psyche displayed there.

1969, Ronald M. Meldrum, “Three of Henry James's Dark Ladies”, in Research Studies, volume 37, page 54:

As for Modigliani he is not a painter I know so I don't know if he knew Bianca in the biblical sense or not.

1980, William Wiser, Disappearances, →ISBN, page 90:

Paul says there are still those who knew him, in the Biblical sense, living on the West Coast — that he was "trade" for "everybody."

1995, Lyle Leverich, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, →ISBN, page 456:

It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride.

2007, Tom LaMarr, Hallelujah City, →ISBN, page 46:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sex with someone.


in the biblical sense

Back-formation from know someone in the biblical sense.

back-form

I was married to you the moment I took you as my wife. That first night I pushed you backward on your bed and took you in the Biblical sense, from that moment on, we were man and wife.

1993, Harold Miles, Bad ol' boy, page 122:

Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense? Man 2: I mean met and been with. Ms-DES-BARRES: I didn't sleep with that many of them.

1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera):

The young witches made their relationship official — in the Biblical sense — and Welch’s howling entreaty, “I’d do anything to make you stay,” expressed their yearning and desperation.

2012 March 23, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'The Secret Circle,' 'The Voice,' 'Switched at Birth,' and more music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 2012-04-26:

Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time.


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She’s not quite right in her head.


love-handled

en-adj

love-handled (comparative more love-handled, superlative most love-handled)

more love-handled (comparative)
most love-handled (superlative)

"She said you were handsome when you were sixteen. She hasn't seen you now you're old and gray and love-handled."

2002, Sabine Durrant, Having it and Eating It, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 21:

(colloquial, euphemistic) Having love handles.


graft the forked tree

en-verb

graft the forked tree (third-person singular simple present grafts the forked tree, present participle grafting the forked tree, simple past and past participle grafted the forked tree)

grafts the forked tree (present singular third-person)
grafting the forked tree (participle present)
grafted the forked tree (participle past)
grafted the forked tree (past)

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He would hardly have perswaded Calisthenes to refuse his faire daughter Agarista to Hippoclides, because he had seen him graft the forked tree [translating faire l'arbre fourché] in her upon a table.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.

1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, act IV:

(obsolete, rare, euphemistic) To have sex.


horizontal hula

en-noun

horizontal hula (plural horizontal hulas)

[…] But when you're in love, you want to be with that person and talk to her, not just do the horizontal hula with her."

2006, Melodie Bowsher, My Lost and Found Life, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 233:

(slang, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


Ugandan discussions

Now that Andy has dispensed with her services, Grovel can reveal that the former soft-porn star was enjoying Ugandan discussions in St Moritz last Christmas with Lome Thyssen, 20-year-old son of the multi-millionaire steel tycoon Baron Heini Thyssen.

1983, Private Eye, numbers 550-575, page 215:

A letter came back on Department of Education notepaper. "Very sorry I can't do lunch. I am usually engaged in Ugandan discussions at lunchtime. I will be happy to see you in the evening."

2009, Ion Trewin, Alan Clark: The Biography, →ISBN:

Boys make gay jokes about most other boys, without any implication that any genuine Ugandan discussions take place.

2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, →ISBN, page 164:

(UK, euphemistic, humorous) Sexual intercourse.


discuss Uganda

en-verb

discuss Uganda (third-person singular simple present discusses Uganda, present participle discussing Uganda, simple past and past participle discussed Uganda)

discusses Uganda (present singular third-person)
discussing Uganda (participle present)
discussed Uganda (participle past)
discussed Uganda (past)

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Coined by Private Eye in reference to an alleged tryst between journalist Mary Kenny and a politician, after which Kenny claimed she was merely "upstairs discussing Uganda".

IMHO she just devalues the rest of us who want to be judged by what we do and what we are, not how we look and who we discuss Uganda with.

1995 April 27, Helen Gerald, “Re: Liz Hurley”, in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet), message-ID <1bd766f1e95e31fd>:

If both [doors] are closed (leaving a small gap between them, that is) it means the occupant is away, studying hard and not wishing to be disturbed, discussing Uganda with a member of the opposite sex (or even, fwankly Wupert, the same one), or enduring a hangover from hell [...]

2007, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Cambridge, →ISBN, page 257:

The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)

2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:

(UK, informal, euphemistic) To have sex.


exotic cheroot

But some busybody got a whiff of an exotic cheroot and the place was closed down.

No sweet scent of the exotic cheroot taints the air, there are scarcely even any smokers, and no one seems to be employing the men's room either to take on fuel or to make a brisk exchange of spermatozoa.

1994, Christopher Hitchens, “Warhol in One Dimension”, in For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, →ISBN, page 283:

'This friend of yours must have been smoking exotic cheroots while writing to you,' reads the note and I laugh out loud, especially as the letter comes from Chuck Pfeifer.

1994, Taki, Nothing to Declare, →ISBN, page 188:

(UK, euphemistic) Cannabis, a joint of cannabis.


older adult

(euphemistic) An old person: especially, one aged 65 years or older.


take the pee

take the pee (third-person singular simple present takes the pee, present participle taking the pee, simple past took the pee, past participle taken the pee)

takes the pee (present singular third-person)
taking the pee (participle present)
took the pee (past)
taken the pee (participle past)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To mock; to make fun of.


chank

(euphemistic, derogatory, offensive) chink.


gorry

She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."

1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower:

"By gorry!" says I; "you're right.

1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:

No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!

1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:


tweep

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

tweeps (present singular third-person)
tweeping (participle present)
tweeped (participle past)
tweeped (past)

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley, →ISBN:

(US, espionage, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.


vehicularly housed

Guinea Apollos, in the polite terms of San Francisco's homeless advocates, is a "vehicularly housed resident."

1997 September 27, Mark Curtius, “S. F. Seeks Parking for Homeless' 'Homes'”, in Los Angeles Times:

(euphemistic) Homeless and living in a car, van, or other type of vehicle.


vehicularly challenged

en-adj

vehicularly challenged (comparative more vehicularly challenged, superlative most vehicularly challenged)

more vehicularly challenged (comparative)
most vehicularly challenged (superlative)

I shot off an e-mail to Hunter, saying I had to cancel tomorrow because I would be vehicularly challenged.

2001, Cate Tiernan, Awakening, Speak, →ISBN:


self-pleasing

Even today, the thought is "good girls don't, but good boys do." The reality is, girls, like boys, are curious about their bodies and may experiment with self-pleasing.

2008, Moira McCarthy, The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls, page 162:

Imagining the neighbors could be doing the same will automatically add new potency to your self-pleasing.

2012, Robin Westen, The 12-Minute Sex Solution, page 43:


put on the block

en-verb

put on the block (third-person singular simple present puts on the block, present participle putting on the block, simple past and past participle put on the block)

puts on the block (present singular third-person)
putting on the block (participle present)
put on the block (participle past)
put on the block (past)


famine resistant

en-adj

famine resistant (comparative more famine resistant, superlative most famine resistant)

more famine resistant (comparative)
most famine resistant (superlative)

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Marge Simpson: Con: you're endangering your health.
Homer Simpson: Pro: I'm drought and famine resistant.

1995, November 5, Dan Greaney, "King-Size Homer", episode 7-7 of The Simpsons, 00:12:25-00:12:30

And they STILL refuse to come out with the Cartman shirts in sizes for famine resistant sysadmins like me. XXL, please!

1998 January 24, Bill Bradford, “Re: ! South Park Stickers are here!”, in austin.forsale (Usenet):

(euphemistic or humorous) Overweight, fat.


lorks

[...] immediately upon his entrance, they straightway rose, to a woman, and each, with alarm in her countenance, ejaculated, " Oh lorks!"

1849, E. P. Roswell, “A Story about an Execution”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 16, page 31:

(UK, euphemistic, dated) oh dear, oh my God.


cut the umbilical cord

en-verb

cut the umbilical cord (third-person singular simple present cuts the umbilical cord, present participle cutting the umbilical cord, simple past and past participle cut the umbilical cord)

cuts the umbilical cord (present singular third-person)
cutting the umbilical cord (participle present)
cut the umbilical cord (participle past)
cut the umbilical cord (past)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To end a child's overdependence on or overattachment to their parents.

apron string

usually tied to one's mother's apron strings


silent majority

en-noun

silent majority (plural silent majorities)

Popularized in contemporary usage by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a speech on November 3, 1969.
The older sense for "the dead" was used in English since the 19th century, and further back in Latin by the Roman writer Petronius, who wrote abiit ad plures (“he has gone to the majority”) to describe the dead.

Each man in the long line knows that if an advance is made some of them will not see the sun set, and he cannot shake off the feeling that perhaps his turn has come to join the silent majority.

1884 October, George F. Williams, “Lights and Shadows of Army Life”, in The Century Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 819:

How the mind strives to recollect the true form and features of those old folk who departed from us to join the silent majority before they were plainly photographed upon our childish memories.

1899 February, J. A. Benson, “X. A Witch”, in The Land Magazine, volume 3, number 2, London, page 154:

Two decades have passed since those words, rebuking wrong in high places, were uttered, and the speaker has since passed over to the silent majority.

1907, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Reed Anthony: Cowman:

(archaic, euphemistic) Those who are dead.


women's room

women's rooms (plural)
woman's room (alternative)

Probably a generic variant of the earlier-attested ladies' room (“a waiting room for women”).

Women were expected to use the toilet provided for the general public... Plans have been made for a women's room at this station.

1918 May 16, US Department of Labor, Monthly Labor Review:

(chiefly US, euphemistic) Synonym of ladies' room: a public lavatory intended for women.


doggonit

Euphemistic variant (with metathesis of the consonants "g" and "d") of the phrase goddamn (doggone) + it.

Doggonit, she made me waste my doggone pecan candy.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) An expression that shows mild or strong frustration about something.


that way inclined

(specifically, euphemistic) Gay, homosexual.


black dog

A personification, attested from 1826. Popularized by Winston Churchill, although it is not clear if he specifically referred to mental health.

A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow / Coming from all sides, like flakes / Of sleep, and myself / On the road to the dark barn, / Halfway there, a black dog near me

1967, Robert Bly, “Melancholia”, in The Light Around the Body:

There's a black dog on my shoulder again / I'm playing with it but it's gone to my head

1998, “Black Dog On My Shoulder”, in This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, performed by Manic Street Preachers:

I can't breathe, feed the black dog / Refuse to breathe, refuse to fuck

2014, “They Told Me It Rained”, in Carry On the Grudge, performed by Jamie T:

Apologies, Miss Armstrong, the black dog has got me in its teeth.

2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 111:

I take a jump off the fire escape / To make the black dog go away

2020, “Black Dog”, in AP1, performed by Arlo Parks:


catch the bus

en-verb

catch the bus (third-person singular simple present catches the bus, present participle catching the bus, simple past and past participle caught the bus)

catches the bus (present singular third-person)
catching the bus (participle present)
caught the bus (participle past)
caught the bus (past)

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Originated on the alt.suicide.holiday Internet newsgroup in the 1990s.

I have the tools for catching the bus, just not the nerve. Soft suicide I can do. Take some pills, no problem. But never do I succeed that way.

2000, (unknown), “catching the bus tonight..... I hope.....”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

If anyone's curious, here's a song my band recorded (totally raw... it never made it out of the studio). A friend of mine caught the bus, and this was my way of saying "Peace."

2004, everwestward, “Is suicide contagious? (was Re: Favorite Songs)”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

Anyway at the end of my day, I decided to give him a call because the worse thing that would happen is that I would have to catch the bus.

2010, Michael F. Clark, Life By Suicide, page 116:

this wasn't the first time he spoke of suicide--this was a suicide chat room after all […]
00sexboy00: tonights^([sic]) the night to catch the bus john! u been crying u pussy? ur slanty eyes are all red!
john squeezed them shut and nodded.
gabe wanted to reach a hand through the monitor to comfort his friend. but all he could do was type.

2011, Jake Vander Ark, Lighthouse Nights:

(euphemistic, chiefly Internet) To kill oneself deliberately; to commit suicide.


artistic temperament

en-noun

artistic temperament (plural artistic temperaments)

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

1899, G. K. Chesterton, “On the Wit of Whistler”, in Heretics:

(euphemistic) A disposition towards obsession and extremes of emotion, especially depression and anger.


ladybits

Many women think their ladybits are ugly or disfigured — let me reassure you that in 99.9% of cases they're not, […]

2011, Julie Peasgood, The Greatest Guide to Sex, Greatest Guides Limited, →ISBN, page 21:

(euphemistic, slang) Synonym of ladyparts.


pre-viewed

Linda Harris of Reston, Va., found a way to cut what it costs to buy videos. "Purchase pre-viewed movies from a video store," she recommends. Harris said she saves as much as half the cost of a new video. For example, she bought a pre-viewed movie, Dinosaur, for $6.99. The original cost $19.99.

2001 July 30, Michelle Singletary, “A Penny Saved Is... Well, It's A Penny Saved”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

(euphemistic, of a VHS cassette, DVD, etc.) Previously viewed; used.


swing both ways

en-verb

swing both ways (third-person singular simple present swings both ways, present participle swinging both ways, simple past and past participle swung both ways)

swings both ways (present singular third-person)
swinging both ways (participle present)
swung both ways (participle past)
swung both ways (past)

Tedd: "Oh... does she, um... 'swing both ways'?"

2014 February 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Feb 10, 2014:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To be bisexual.


ankle bracelet

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(often euphemistic, humorous) An ankle monitor.


exchange flesh

exchange flesh (third-person singular simple present exchanges flesh, present participle exchanging flesh, simple past and past participle exchanged flesh)

exchanges flesh (present singular third-person)
exchanging flesh (participle present)
exchanged flesh (participle past)
exchanged flesh (past)

[…]it was thought ſhe was a Woman, and was turn'd into a cold fiſh, for ſhe wold not exchange fleſh with one that lou'd her: […]

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 293, column 2:

[W]ill-she, nill-she, she must have Roger's company nightly in her bed, to ensure that he lay not with another. . . . To exchange flesh with Roger she would bid all the world defiance.

1977, Jane Lane, A Secret Chronicle: Edward II (2002 House of Stratus reprint), page 140 (Google preview)

She thinks to herself, What crime have I committed? If two people exchange flesh for money, why is it that only the one who contributes the flesh is a criminal and not the one who pays?

1997, Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, →ISBN, page 210:

(rare, archaic, idiomatic, euphemistic) To engage in sexual intercourse.


drop a deuce

drop a deuce (third-person singular simple present drops a deuce, present participle dropping a deuce, simple past and past participle dropped a deuce)

drops a deuce (present singular third-person)
dropping a deuce (participle present)
dropped a deuce (participle past)
dropped a deuce (past)

From slang use of deuce (“number two”) in reference to feces.

(euphemistic, slang) To release feces into a toilet; to defecate.


motherlover

From mother + lover, as a euphemism for motherfucker.

"They still want to help that motherlover."

1971, Daniel Curley, In the Hands of Our Enemies: Stories, University of Illinois Press, page 81:

The Muslim bomb-chuckers, running away from the house where I'd fired at them, came back to the Kotli to seek refuge — all except the motherlover we'd caught.

2001, Shashi Tharoor, Riot, Penguin Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 256:

"I ain't scared of no motherlover in this world or the next."

2007, Gary Phillips, “Sportin' Men”, in Pete Hautman, Francine P. Pascal, editors, Full House: 10 Stories About Poker, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN:

(euphemistic, slang, derogatory) Motherfucker.


motherhumper

From mother + humper, as a euphemism for motherfucker.

But this motherhumper had feet long as my legs. His boots had to be special made. He was at least six-eight, […]

1976, Charles Durden, No Bugles, No Drums, The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 95:

[…] I mean, if people don't chain up a dog that bites, they deserve what they get, you know? That thing . . . did you see it? I bet that motherhumper went two hundred pounds."

1981, Stephen King, Cujo, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 73:

"I'll bet you that redheaded motherhumper is behind this."

1993, William Shatner, Tek Secret, Ace/Putnam, →ISBN, page 142:


in the club

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hide the sausage

hide the sausage (third-person singular simple present hides the sausage, present participle hiding the sausage, simple past hid the sausage, past participle hidden the sausage)

hides the sausage (present singular third-person)
hiding the sausage (participle present)
hid the sausage (past)
hidden the sausage (participle past)

He pressed his rock hard cock against the soft flesh hidden by her cotton shorts. “But at night, I want to be all 'growed' up again so I can play hide the sausage in your bed!”

2004, Mlyn Hurn, Hunter's Legacy (Blood Dreams, Book Two), page 29:

It's a bit like Dubai. Yes, there is a sea and sand, and providing you don't play hide the sausage with someone's else's wife, you will have a nice time.

(idiomatic, slang, humorous, euphemistic) To have sex (where a penis is involved).


the change

GWM, very fem, considering the Change

1991 August 24, Keith De Blasio, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 13:


motherfunker

(If Rhino follows up with Volumes 6 through 10, extending up through 1982 and Dazz Band's "Let It Whip," those sets should be absolute motherfunkers.)

1993 September, Mark Coleman, “In Yo' Face: The History of Funk”, in Vibe:

From the initial weirdness of their songs about space aliens to B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad), their millennial drum-and-bass gospel opus, they have proved that it's possible to be unusual, ambitious and immensely popular. In their own words, "We are/ The coolest motherfunkers on the planet."

2004 April 26, Josh Tyrangiel, “OutKast”, in Time:

Some players stress over their game, but Houston's Devin the Dude is one slack motherfunker, worrying only about weed, women, and…uh, what was the question?

2005, Joe Gross, To Tha X-Streme review, "Ten Best Albums You Didn't Hear", Spin, January 2005

(euphemistic, slang, sometimes derogatory) Motherfucker.


on in years

en-adj

on in years (not generally comparable, comparative more on in years, superlative most on in years)

more on in years (comparative)
most on in years (superlative)

Being rather young at present—I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young—I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon.

1853, Charles Dickens, The Schoolboy's Story:

More years went by, and his wife was dead, and he well on in years.

1893, William Butler Yeats, “An Enduring Heart”, in The Celtic Twilight:

I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled.

1905, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act 3:

[O]ld as I am,—I do not mean aged, but well on in years,—I believe in love still.

1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 20, in A Roman Singer:

Brittle bones can be more than just a bother for anyone who is getting on in years.

2004 May 24, Alice Park, “Health: Old Bones, New Hope”, in Time:

(idiomatic, mildly euphemistic) Old; advanced in age.


honey bucket

Compare honey pot and honey wagon (“sewage trailer”).

A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrel sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.

1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106:

(euphemistic, obsolete) A chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.


little person

en-noun

little person (plural little people or little persons)

little people (plural)
little persons (plural)

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Here, the amount of personal space that is acknowledged for a little person is similar to that of a child.

2012, Vera Chouinard, Edward Hall, Robert Wilton, Towards Enabling Geographies, page 188:

(euphemistic) A person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.

petite personne

euphemistic term for a person with dwarfism — see also dwarf


getting enough

He's just grumpy because he's not getting enough.

(euphemistic, chiefly in the negative) Having sex (habitually, not currently).


crimson tide

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nether cheek

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He turned the freer upon his face downright, / Displaying his nether cheeks full broad and white.

1822, John Gay, “Tales”, in The Poems of John Gay:

(often pluralized, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) A buttock.


ease nature

en-verb

ease nature (third-person singular simple present eases nature, present participle easing nature, simple past and past participle eased nature)

eases nature (present singular third-person)
easing nature (participle present)
eased nature (participle past)
eased nature (past)

(archaic, euphemistic) To urinate or defecate.


bullbleep

Delving into my (very private) logbook, I found that I had described them then, simply as "Brainstorms and bullbleep!"

1972, John D. Clark, Ignition!, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:


in the bedroom

How are things going in the bedroom with your husband?

They're both inexperienced in the bedroom.

(euphemistic) Regarding sexual activity or one's sex life.


pucky

(slang, US, euphemistic, dated) Feces, excrement.


lie back and think of England

lie<,,lay,lain> back and think<,,thought> of England

lie back and think of England (third-person singular simple present lies back and thinks of England, present participle lying back and thinking of England, simple past lay back and thought of England, past participle lain back and thought of England)

lies back and thinks of England (present singular third-person)
lying back and thinking of England (participle present)
lay back and thought of England (past)
lain back and thought of England (participle past)

He tried to back away, but she was on him like a vixen on heat, pushing him back onto the bed, rubbing her body against him, opening her legs, reaching for him, her mouth coming down hard on his and her tongue lancing into his mouth. He struggled for a moment, then thought, ‘Well, I’d better lie back and think of England.’

1996, John Gardner, Cold, Orion Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 80:

close one's eyes and think of England#English

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Synonym of close one's eyes and think of England: to accept unwanted sex due to social pressures.


shut one's eyes and think of England

shut<,,shut> one's eyes and think<,,thought> of England

shut one's eyes and think of England (third-person singular simple present shuts one's eyes and thinks of England, present participle shutting one's eyes and thinking of England, simple past and past participle shut one's eyes and thought of England)

shuts one's eyes and thinks of England (present singular third-person)
shut one's eyes and thought of England (participle past)
shut one's eyes and thought of England (past)

Once she got going on the subject of that poor mutt's performance—or, more properly, lack of it—there was no stopping her. I hardly knew where to put my face, let alone various other portions of my anatomy. It was what you might call an illustrated lecture, see? Everything but the magic lantern slides. In the end I just shut my eyes and thought of England.

1982, Sylvia Theresa Haymon, Ritual Murder, page 136:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Alternative form of close one's eyes and think of England: to accept unwanted sex due to social pressures.


anatomically correct

en-adj

anatomically correct (not generally comparable, comparative more anatomically correct, superlative most anatomically correct)

more anatomically correct (comparative)
most anatomically correct (superlative)

Prosecutors in the Glen Ridge sex assault trial asked today for special courtroom arrangements . . . to allow her to use five anatomically correct dolls when she describes the episode to the jury.

1992 December 2, Robert Hanley, “Special Steps Asked for Figure Central to Sex Assault Trial”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-08-04:

Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man.

2001 June 24, Margaret Carlson, “New Lows for the News”, in Time:

(euphemistic, of a doll, figurine, etc.) Possessing a physiologically accurate representation of sex organs.


golden years

To make the most of your golden years, study the points enumerated above and then resolve to do just the opposite.

1958 October 16, Robert Peterson, “Growing Old Disgracefully”, in St. Petersburg Independent, US, page 9:

If, by the time you are 50, you haven't started planning for retirement, the golden years won't be golden.

1986 December 18, “Planning key to financially secure retirement”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, page C1:

A huge wave of baby boomers may need long-term care in their golden years.

2011 February 8, Janet Morrissey, “Preparing for Long-Term Care: Any Good Options?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2013-08-24:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Old age; especially, the leisure years in later life after one has retired from employment.


house of ill fame

en-noun

house of ill fame (plural houses of ill fame)

Thirty men were arrested July 26 and charged with "open and gross lewdness" in an early-morning vice squad raid on the Quagmire bar basement. Police also arrested the bar's manager, Barcaly Churchill, and owner, Lloyd Swanson, charging them with a number of counts, including the keeping of a house of ill fame and the dissemination of obscene matter.

1981 August 8, Larry Goldsmith, “Boston Police Arrest 30 Men in Bar Raid”, in Gay Community News, page 1:


French disease

So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.

Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]

2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, →ISBN, page 88:


do one's business

en-verb

do one's business (third-person singular simple present does one's business, present participle doing one's business, simple past did one's business, past participle done one's business)

does one's business (present singular third-person)
doing one's business (participle present)
did one's business (past)
done one's business (participle past)

Honey, the neighbor's dog's doing its business in our yard again.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Especially of a house pet: to defecate or urinate.


not the sharpest tool in the shed

not the sharpest tool in the shed US.ogg

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.

1999, Greg Camp, “All Star”, in Astro Lounge, performed by Smash Mouth, Los Angeles: Interscope Records, track 2:

not the brightest bulb in the chandelier

(humorous, euphemistic) Lacking in intelligence; dimwitted.


bio-break

bio-breaks (plural)
bio break (alternative)
biobreak (alternative)

We stopped once for a bio-break at a road side gas station. Most of us (including a few women) used the bushes because it took too long to get in the bathrooms.

2004 December 16, Trever Bushnell, “Pro Cycling News: Riding the Ruta de los Conquistadores”, in Daily Peloton, retrieved 2013-10-07:

"You are either going to stop for a gas break, meal break or a bio break. At these facilities you can do all three."

2006 December 24, Scott Jason, “Travel Center Slated to Open Early '07”, in Modesto Bee, retrieved 2013-10-07:

Bin-Laden says his hatred of flush toilets stems from an incident in his youth when he was visiting London with his family and faced with nature's urge to take a bio-break was shocked to see his first flush toilet.

2008 December 2, Victor Nicholas, “El Qaeda Targets Flush Toilets”, in The Spoof, retrieved 2013-10-07:

There is barely time for a bio break in between events.

2009 January 8, Rick Merritt, “Video: LG's Woo Paik on 3DTV”, in EE Times, retrieved 2013-10-07:

(informal, euphemistic) A visit to a bathroom or restroom in order to relieve oneself.


cerebrovascular accident

en-noun

cerebrovascular accident (plural cerebrovascular accidents)

cerebrovascular accidents (plural)
CVA (alternative)

(medicine, formal, sometimes euphemistic) Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).


RUD

(explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym

abbreviation of

Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.

2015 January 16, Alex Hern, “This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like”, in The Guardian:

“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.

2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:

rapid unplanned disassembly
rapid unplanned disassembly#English

(acronym, initialism): (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup


RUD

(engineering, euphemistic) To produce a RUD (rapid unplanned disassembly)


rapid unplanned disassembly

en-noun

rapid unplanned disassembly (countable and uncountable, plural rapid unplanned disassemblies)

(engineering, euphemistic) An explosion or breakup of a vehicle, usually an airplane or a rocket.


energetic disassembly

energetic disassembly (plural energetic disassemblies)

(euphemistic, humorous) destructive explosion.


r-word

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I recently spoke supporting a new name for the President's Committee on Mental Retardation. I suggested it be changed to "President's Committee for People with Developmental Disabilities."

2003, James Meadours, “Tell the President Stop using that "R" word”, in Mouth, volume 14, number 3 (Sep/Oct 2003), page 34:

The Tropic Thunder premiere presented a particularly strong opportunity for advocacy groups to make further progress on this front, because the R-word has played a major role in advance viral marketing for the prospective big-budget blockbuster.[…]

2008 August 13, “The r-word”, in National Post, Don Mills, Ontario, page A.12:

The latest battle over the R-word kicked into high gear with a Jan. 26 Wall Street Journal report that last summer White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel blasted liberal activists unhappy with the pace of health-care reform, deriding their strategies as "[expletive] retarded."

2010 February 14, Christopher M. Fairman, “Saying it is hurtful. Banning it is worse”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2013-10-24:

When people continue to use the 'R' word, it's hurtful," Seckler added.

2010 August 20, “Jennifer Aniston slammed for using 'retard' word in interview”, in Asian News International, New Delhi:

Throughout 2025, influential public figures like Rogan, Musk and Kanye West have used the r-word on platforms where millions can see and hear them.

2025 May 31, Scottie Andrew, “The ‘r-word’ is back. How a slur became renormalized”, in CNN:

(euphemistic) The word retard or retarded, regarded as a vulgar or taboo word.

"Updike can use the `R' word" (rape, he meant) "to describe the love-making (sic) of the two Brazilians and get away with it."

1994 April 17, Harvey Porlock, “On the Critical List; Books”, in The Times, London (UK):

As the viewer of any after-school special can tell you, women shy away from the R word because they blame themselves.

2001, Noelle Howie, “By any other name”, in Ms, volume 11, number 2 (Feb/Mar 2001), pages 86—89:

You don't ask a victim 'How's it going?' and you don't use the R word with them.

2004 March 11, Eric Schmitt, “Army Retraining Soldiers to Meet Its Shifting Needs”, in The New York Times, page A22:

Of late though, the R-word has acquired a dark new meaning with guys leaping out of bushes onto hapless maidens.

2009 November 23, “The Indian rape trick”, in The Hindustan Times, New Delhi:

(euphemistic) The word rape, regarded as a vulgar or taboo word.

For years, Native American Indian groups and a wide variety of knee-jerk liberal sympathizers, including me, your humble scrivener, have pointed fingers of shame, shame, shame at the R-word team.

1992 September 23, Clarence Page, “Block that trademarked racial epithet”, in The Orlando Sentinel, page A9:

“The r-word is no more acceptable to American Indians than the n-word is to blacks,” one woman stated succinctly in a recent Post letter to the editor […]

2001, Bruce Stapleton, Redskins: Racial Slur Or Symbol of Success?, iUniverse, page 49:

It's better than the R word, huh? Redskin? Better than prairie nigger. That's a real beaut. It's even better than Native American.

2008, Kathleen Eagle, Mystic Horseman, page 272:

(euphemistic) The word redskin or redskins (including Redskins as a team name) regarded as a vulgar or taboo word.


r-word

en-verb

r-word (third-person singular simple present r-words, present participle r-wording, simple past and past participle r-worded)

r-words (present singular third-person)
r-wording (participle present)
r-worded (participle past)
r-worded (past)
R-word (alternative)


t-word

Some will claim these tax hikes aren't really taxes. They'll search the dictionary to find every possible way to avoid using that “T” word.

1995, Bill Clinton, “The President's Radio Address, October 7, 1995”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Book 2: July 1 to December 31, 1995, page 1553:

(euphemistic, humorous) tax or taxes, treated as if it were taboo.

(euphemistic) The word tranny, regarded as offensive and taboo.

(euphemistic) Any of several other words beginning with t when regarded (sometimes humorously) as taboo, for example tit, twat, turd, terrorist or terrorism, treason, Trump.


rumpty-tumpty

This female was clearly not up for any rumpty tumpty in the grass, and she bopped her suitor a few times before he got the message and sulkily sloped back to his corner of the field.

2012, Ellie Bennett, Mud, Sweat and Gears, →ISBN:


v-word

(euphemistic) The word vagina or Voldemort.


go over to the majority

go<goes,,went,gone> over to the majority

go over to the majority (third-person singular simple present goes over to the majority, present participle going over to the majority, simple past went over to the majority, past participle gone over to the majority)

goes over to the majority (present singular third-person)
going over to the majority (participle present)
went over to the majority (past)
gone over to the majority (participle past)

Referring to the fact that most of the people who have ever been born are now dead.


variety meat

en-noun

variety meat (countable and uncountable, plural variety meats)


undocumented worker

undocumented worker (plural undocumented workers)

(euphemistic) An illegal immigrant; illegal alien.


tarnal

(US, slang, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier)


dagnab

en-verb

dagnab (third-person singular simple present dagnabs, present participle dagnabbing, simple past and past participle dagnabbed)

dagnabs (present singular third-person)
dagnabbing (participle present)
dagnabbed (participle past)
dagnabbed (past)

Dagnab it!

Where did I put those dagnabbed keys?


front bum

(British, slang, euphemistic) The vagina or vulva.


nightwalker

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* night + walker
* (vampire): since they are traditionally said to avoid sunlight and go out at night.

(archaic, euphemistic) A prostitute who looks for clients on the streets.


rough sleeper

In England, meanwhile, government figures show the number of rough sleepers – a small fraction of the total homeless population – climbed from 1,768 in 2010 to 4,677 last year (and since the official count is based on a single evening, charities say the real figure is far higher).

2019 June 3, Jon Henley, “'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A homeless person who sleeps outdoors.


bar sinister

en-noun

bar sinister (usually uncountable, plural bars sinister)

bars sinister (plural)
Bar-Sinister (alternative)
bar-sinister (alternative)

He was not influenced by sordid considerations. . . . Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister.

1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 16, in The House Behind The Cedars:

Parlay's a full-blooded Frenchman. . . . About a hundred miserable Paumotans lived on the island. He married the queen—native fashion. . . . Now before the queen died she gave birth to a girl. . . . She was educated like a princess, and she accepted herself in much the same way. Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.

1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in A Son Of The Sun:

James Smithson was the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland, third creation. His mother was a lineal descendant of Henry VII. Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared James Smithson all his life.

1936 October 26, “Science: Smithsonian's Year”, in Time, retrieved 2014-03-27:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) The state or characteristic of having been born out of wedlock; illegitimacy; bastardy.


woman of the night

woman of the night (plural women of the night)

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auger in

en-verb

auger in (third-person singular simple present augers in, present participle augering in, simple past and past participle augered in)

augers in (present singular third-person)
augering in (participle present)
augered in (participle past)
augered in (past)

auger + in: the plane is metaphorically drilling into the ground.

The pilot lost pitch control and the jet augered in.

(military, aviation, euphemistic) To crash catastrophically into the ground.


women's troubles

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(dated, euphemistic) Unpleasant symptoms associated with menstruation.


blue falcon

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From the same initial letters as "buddy-fucker."

We had a term in the military for a soldier who was not a good Battle Buddy. He was a "Blue Falcon." That rather odd name is an attempt to clean up a much more graphic term. The initials for Blue Falcon, "BF", were originally the first letters of a term I'll refrain from printing here. Let's just say that the "B" stood for "Buddy" and the "F" stood for a classic word of profanity. A BF was someone who screwed his buddies. We just called them Blue Falcons.

2013, Jeff Rose, Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn, →ISBN, page 26:

To them, he's a Blue Falcon, a derogatory euphemism for "buddy-fucker." Blue Falcons are great soldiers when the commander's watching. But they'll screw you in a heartbeat when nobody else is around.

2007, David Axe, Army 101: Inside ROTC in a Time of War, Univ of South Carolina Press, page 31:

(US, military, euphemistic) A supposed comrade whose actions harm his friends, often but not always, for his own benefit.


dumb cluck

(informal, euphemistic, derogatory) A stupid person.


horizontal refreshments

en-noun

horizontal refreshments pl (plural only)

/ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ.mənts/

The cold, during the winter night, is very severe, and the sentinels are frequently obliged to be relieved every half-hour, and the officers, so long as they possess the "prima flora juvenus," may enjoy horizontal refreshments in peace; but when they obtained those manly appendages, yclept whiskers, find that turing in bed becomes hopeless, and being "brought up with a round turn," discover that they have become frozen to the sheets.

1846 January 10, Richard George Augustus Levinge, “Echoes from the Backwoods”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 76, number 301, chapter 2, page 38:

Here at The Federalist, we talk about sex a lot as is. Join us this week for some additional fun and deep-thinking about, well, you know — dancing in the sheets, horizontal refreshments, the beast with two backs, Blitzkrieg mit dem fleischgewehr, gland to gland combat, and more.

2015 February 9, Mollie Hemingway, “A Sex Week For The Rest Of Us”, in The Federalist, retrieved 2017-06-01:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


love button

I press on my clitoris, swirl my two fingers over my love button, emitting a low moan.

2012, Man Swappers, Cairo: Strebor Books, →ISBN, pages 275–276:

He proceeded to taste me, his tongue tossing my love button around in his mouth.

2013, Jusme, "Twins", in Busy Bodies: Chocolate Flava 4 (ed. Zane), Atria Books (2013), page 247

She was yearning for him; her love button had never been so swollen in her life.

2014, JaQuavis Coleman, The White House, Akashic Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 46:


resurrection man

resurrection man (plural resurrection men)

resurrection men (plural)
resurrection-man (alternative)

resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man

Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up.

1781, “R. King”, in Compl. Mod. London Spy, section 106:

Earlier exhumations seem to have caused very little popular concern;... but later... the trade of ‘resurrection man’ became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes.

1910, Encyclopædia Britannica, I. 937/2:

(euphemistic, historical) A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.


eternal sleep

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Death, eternal oblivion


shake hands with the unemployed

en-verb

shake<,,shook,shaken> hands with the unemployed

shake hands with the unemployed (third-person singular simple present shakes hands with the unemployed, present participle shaking hands with the unemployed, simple past shook hands with the unemployed, past participle shaken hands with the unemployed)

shakes hands with the unemployed (present singular third-person)
shaking hands with the unemployed (participle present)
shook hands with the unemployed (past)
shaken hands with the unemployed (participle past)

En-au-shake hands with the unemployed.ogg

An oblique reference to the usual 'employment' of the penis in sex, masturbation, or urination. In reference to masturbation, sometimes credited to American comedian George Carlin.

An older man made this remark when he left the bar to urinate: "Well, I'll go back and shake hands with the unemployed." Since he was heading for the men's room I didn't get the significance of this statement for a minute or so; it was, of course, a reference to sexual inactivity.

1975, E. E. LeMasters, Blue-collar Aristocrats: Life-styles at a Working-class Tavern, University of Wisconsin Press, pages 103-104:

Why did the preppie boy make a great social worker? He had a lot of practice shaking hands with the unemployed.

1993, Seattle Sal, Grunge Jokes, S.P. Books, page 43:

(euphemistic slang, of men) To masturbate.


between wind and water

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(colloquial, euphemistic, by extension) At a person's crotch (i.e. between the sources of flatulence and urine).


sister humper

2000, bubba jones, Re: How the Serbs Abuse History (WSJ - May 7, 1999) Group: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Or what a red-neck sister humper like you thinks

2004, William Wolfe, Re: BUY HEC SHORT ECGI Group: alt.music.michael-jackson
Stay stupid, little webtv sister humper.

2005, alt-ctrl-del, Re: OK GROUP WANT ME TO LEAVE THEN READ(Gator)(Alt) Group: alt.sports.football.college.fla-gators
You wont get another congrats from me you redneck cattle fucking sister humper.

(euphemistic, slang, derogatory) Sisterfucker.


bull butter

(for you city folks, bull butter is that black, smelly substance found in piles all over cow pastures) but in your case, the bull butter ain't on the outside.

2014, Ken English, More COMMON Sense, page 86:

(euphemistic, slang, literal or figurative) bullshit


play silly beggars

play silly beggars (third-person singular simple present plays silly beggars, present participle playing silly beggars, simple past and past participle played silly beggars)

plays silly beggars (present singular third-person)
playing silly beggars (participle present)
played silly beggars (participle past)
played silly beggars (past)

play silly buggers
play silly buggers#English

(euphemistic) Alternative form of play silly buggers.


Calque of Russian груз-200 (gruz-200), груз-две́сти (gruz-dvésti). Various theories exist regarding the Russian term.

(code word, euphemistic) Casualties for transportation in the Soviet and modern Russian military. In official use, cargo 200 refers to bodies contained in zinc-lined coffins, but in a military context it may be used for dead bodies as they are transported from the battlefield.

Cargo 200
Cargo 200 (code name)
Cargo 200 (film)


service oneself

service oneself (third-person singular simple present services oneself, present participle servicing oneself, simple past and past participle serviced oneself)

services oneself (present singular third-person)
servicing oneself (participle present)
serviced oneself (participle past)
serviced oneself (past)

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have marital relations

have marital relations (third-person singular simple present has marital relations, present participle having marital relations, simple past and past participle had marital relations)

has marital relations (present singular third-person)
having marital relations (participle present)
had marital relations (participle past)
had marital relations (past)

(euphemistic) To have sex (especially of a married couple).


woman of the street

en-noun

woman of the street (plural women of the street)

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little man

(euphemistic) A man with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.


pay a visit

en-verb

pay a visit (third-person singular simple present pays a visit, present participle paying a visit, simple past and past participle paid a visit)

pays a visit (present singular third-person)
paying a visit (participle present)
paid a visit (participle past)
paid a visit (past)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To go to the toilet.


racially challenged

He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.

2009, Michael Dibdin, End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 206:

Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".

2013, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture:

"You must have quite a powerful mind for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment. "What do you mean, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess all wizards have to be white […]"

2019, Brock E. Deskins, The Portal, Crossroad Press:

(US, euphemistic) Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism.

[…] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.

And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.

2010, Peter R. Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:

It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want nonwhite Americans to share in the coming cornucopia.

2013, L. Brent Bozell, III, Tim Graham, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

(US, euphemistic) White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.


employmentally challenged

en-adj

employmentally challenged (comparative more employmentally challenged, superlative most employmentally challenged)

more employmentally challenged (comparative)
most employmentally challenged (superlative)

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

(rare, humorous, euphemistic) Unemployed; jobless.


shii

en-noun

shii (usually uncountable, plural shiis)

Pronunciation spelling of shit. Represents a pronunciation with the final consonant deleted (a possible realization in African-American Vernacular English). Compare bih, ahh.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Internet, euphemistic) Pronunciation spelling of shit.


testilying

Blend of testifying + lying. Coined by New York City police officers, appearing in print in 1994 in the report of the Mollen Commission (see 1994 quotation).

Several officers also told us that the practice of police falsification in connection with such arrests is so common in certain precincts that it has spawned its own word: “testilying.“

[1994, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department, Committee Report, page 36:

“Testilying,” police fabricating evidence or lying in court, is a type of police corruption.

2007, Jack R. Greene, “Courtroom testimony and ‘testilying’”, in The Encyclopedia of Police Science, volume 1, page 273:

Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.

2018, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah Robinson, Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness: Section III. The Subversions and Perversions of Shadow Vigilantism:

(US, law, informal, euphemistic) The act of a police officer giving false testimony (perjury).


rubber-hose cryptanalysis

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Referring to the use of a rubber hose as a weapon to beat somebody with.

We have shown that GNUnet is vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, but we additionally have presented an efficient content filter for GNUnet. If content filtering is legally enforced, censoring GNUnet is possible at a very large scale.

2003, Dennis Kügler, “An Analysis of GNUnet”, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, edited by Roger Dingledine, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 175:

Catherine scooted out of the way, giving Terry access to the keyboard. With a labored sigh, Terry began searching the encrypted text. “I could try a ciphertext-only attack,” he mumbled to no one in particular. “Then again,” he glared at the attacker and continued, “I could always try rubber-hose cryptanalysis.” He thought for a moment. “I don't need a total break; I'm only interested in information deduction. Let me check the swap file.”

2005, Ryan Russell, Peter A Riley, Jay Beale, Chris Hurley, Tom Parker, Brian Hatch, Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity: How to Own an Identity, Syngress, →ISBN, page 279:

Other types of cryptanalytic attacks include chosen cipher text, chosen key, rubber hose cryptanalysis, and purchase key. Algorithms differ by degrees of security; this depends on how hard they are to break.

2010, Hazarathaiah Malepati, Digital Media Processing: DSP Algorithms Using C, Newnes, →ISBN, page 18:

(cryptography, euphemistic) The extraction of cryptographic secrets by coercion or torture.


intellectually challenged

en-adj

intellectually challenged (comparative more intellectually challenged, superlative most intellectually challenged)

more intellectually challenged (comparative)
most intellectually challenged (superlative)

(euphemistic, of a person) Of low intelligence; stupid.


pdf

(Internet, euphemistic) Alternative form of PDF file (“paedophile”).


caught short

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Some clever person came up with the apt name of little John (or big John for the optimist) for a suitably shaped container for those who were caught short.

2009, Colin Cox, Short Hops Across the Atlantic, page 174:

(euphemistic) Needing to use the toilet at a point where no toilet facilities are available.


enhanced interrogation technique

en-noun

enhanced interrogation technique (plural enhanced interrogation techniques)

enhanced interrogation techniques (plural)

Coined by the George W. Bush administration (administration of the 43rd president of the United States of America), with the antecedent German verschärfte Vernehmung (“enhanced interrogation”).

calque

(US, euphemistic, primarily plural) Torture.


k-word

But the greatest racial insult available to South Africa's racists is one with numerous variations of meaning: the "K" word.

2006, David Beresford, “What about the K word?”, in The Guardian:

(South Africa, euphemistic) The word kaffir.

People are talking about the fact that The Onion used the word “kike” to mock the refusal by Dan Snyder to change the name of the Washington Redskins.

2013, Philip Weiss, “Onion uses the K-word”, in Mondoweiss:

(Malaysia, Singapore, euphemistic) The word Keling.


k-word

en-verb

k-word (third-person singular simple present k-words, present participle k-wording, simple past and past participle k-worded)

k-words (present singular third-person)
k-wording (participle present)
k-worded (participle past)
k-worded (past)
K-word (alternative)

Chris Pratt’s photo is in black and white because Nintendo knows the Mafia is going to k word him for doing the accent after the movie comes out

the fact that hes trying to be funny by imitating jungkook's pose but ended up k-wording ppl with his lethal good looks


let someone go

let someone go (third-person singular simple present lets someone go, present participle letting someone go, simple past and past participle let someone go)

lets someone go (present singular third-person)
letting someone go (participle present)
let someone go (participle past)
let someone go (past)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.


motherfreaking

/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfɹiːkɪŋ/

What I find insanely wonderful about this is that technically my friend is now driving a car which is powered by the motherfreakin’ sun.

2014 May 13, Matthew Inman, “What it’s like to own a Tesla Model S - A cartoonist’s review of his magical space car”, in The Oatmeal, retrieved 2015-01-27:

(euphemistic, slang, chiefly US) An intensifier, used in the same contexts as freaking, but more intense.


motherfreaking

/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfɹiːkɪŋ/

He is one motherfreaking mean dude.

(euphemistic, slang, chiefly US) To an extreme degree.


house in Virginia

The phrase has the same initials as the name of the virus.

That other crowd, which is the crowd made up of members of our own same-gender loving community saying, “Girl, Miss Thing losing too much weight. She must have a House In Virginia!”

2010, Badilisho, “Well It’s Official... Er’body Can Get Married In D.C.” In Mighty Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writing, ed. R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams, Lulu.com, p. 399

Charles suddenly grew very serious. He paused, and then spoke. “Well... how can I put this... Naleejah has a House In Virginia.”

2012, Dream Jordan, Bad Boy, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 115:

“Looks ain’t everything—like a bad bitch could have that house in Virginia, you never know,” says Scoop.

2013, M. K. Asante, Buck: A Memoir, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 115:

human immunodeficiency virus
human immunodeficiency virus

(euphemistic) HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.


gormed

(British, dialect, euphemistic) Damned, in the sense of "I'll be damned if...", expressing utter certainty.


that way

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Gay; homosexual.


stuff you

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Used in place of fuck you.


doodie head

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Crystal stepped forward and shouted, "you talk to your scabs?! You big doodie head!"

2011, Korin Gould, Cellophane Friends, →ISBN:

My husband reminded me that my 3-year-old nephew had earlier called me a doodie head.

2000, Korin Gould, The 100 Greatest Entertainers 1950-2000, →ISBN, page 74:

He screams. "Shut up down there! You doodie head!"

1984, John Bowers, In the Land of Nyx: Night and Its Inhabitants, page 2:


collateral damage

en-noun

collateral damage (usually uncountable, plural collateral damages)

A certain amount of collateral damage and destruction to the surrounding environment has always been viewed as a necessary but generally undesirable by-product of military conflict.

1999, Dennis L. Soden, The Environmental Presidency, →ISBN, page 237:

But the most critical tension concerns the need to balance minimal own-casualties and low collateral damage with operational effectiveness.

2004, Alice Hills, Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma, →ISBN, page 197:

And, most importantly, there may come a point when, by taking measures to improve the security of the attacking force, the increase in the expected collateral damage outweighs the anticipated military advantage.

2009, Ian Henderson, The Contemporary Law of Targeting, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

(military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs


long-eared guinea pig

long-eared guinea pig (plural long-eared guinea pigs)

Due to the keeping of rabbits as pets being illegal in some places.


bow chicka wow wow

From onomatopoeia for the stereotypical funk riff used in the soundtracks to pornographic films. Wired credits comedian Jordan Brady as "apparently the first person ever to use the phrase" and it was a part of his act in his Evening at the Improv routine in 1989.

bow chica wow wow (alternative)
bow-chica-wow-wow (alternative)
bow chicka bow wow (alternative)
bow-chicka-bow-wow (alternative)
bow-chicka-wow-wow (alternative)

And when all the kids finally moved out, she and Sawyer had had plenty of...how did the younger generation put it? Bow-chicka-wow-wow?

2014, Pamela Hearon, Moonlight in Paris, →ISBN, page 74:

He started daen sounds wi his mooth like cheesy porn music, then started sayin' “bow chicka wow wow,” while stickin' his right index finger through the hole he'd made wi his left index finger n thumb.

2013, Brandon Wilkinson, The Tin Boy: Tale of a Scottish Football Misfit, →ISBN, page 18:

He started doing sounds with his mouth like cheesy porn music, then started saying “bow chicka wow wow,” while sticking his right index finger through the hole he'd made with his left index finger and thumb.

Abigail pulled down a corner of the towel, enough for one eye to peek out. “Bow chicka wow wow,” she said, and covered her eye again.

2012, Emma Straub, Other People We Married, →ISBN:

(euphemistic) Sexual activity or approval.


push up daisies

en-verb

push up daisies (third-person singular simple present pushes up daisies, present participle pushing up daisies, simple past and past participle pushed up daisies)

pushes up daisies (present singular third-person)
pushing up daisies (participle present)
pushed up daisies (participle past)
pushed up daisies (past)
push daisies (alternative)
push up the daisies (alternative)

In allusion to the daisy flowers growing over a dead person's grave. Originated in World War I.

(idiomatic, euphemistic or humorous) To be dead.


black ivory

(historical, euphemistic) Black slaves, regarded as cargo in the slave trade.