mountain n.
1. (US black) in pl., large, noticeable female breasts.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 55: Flow’ry mountains, / Mossy fountains, / Shady woods, / Christal floods, / With wild variety surprize]. |
| [ | | Peeping Tom (London) 1 2/2: Two snowy mountains rise above / [...] / Which Venus named the Hills of Love]. |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
2. (US campus) an erection.
| College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Mountain {somewhat vulgar}(noun) A boner; an erection. |
3. see mountain dew n.
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US, mainly Western) a donkey.
| DN VII 114: Mountain canary [...] Burro. | |
 | College to Cow Country 406: Mountain Canaries and the Rustler [HDAS]. |
(US campus) a feeling of intoxication produced by drugs.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: mountain climber – a high induced by drugs. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 31: Often the second part of a noun + noun compound is derived from a verb by the suffix -er: [...] mountain climber ‘high induced by drugs’. |
(Aus.) a native of Tasmania.
| [ | ![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 10 June 5/4: Fiji [...] The Kai Colos, or ‘Mountain Devils,’ have been giving some trouble again [...] They came down and attacked and burned several native villages]. |
| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. (2nd edn). | |
| Chron. (Adelaide) 24 Mar. 43/3: For Tasmanians, Van Diemenese, Derveners, Derwent Ducks, Mountain Devils, Tassies and Tassylanders. |
see separate entry.
(US prison) any form of prison meat.
| Man with the Golden Arm 208: ‘Wait till we get that mountain goat’ — warless soldiers [...] indifferent to Sunday mutton. | |
| et al. DAUL 142/1: Mountain goat. (P) Sliced mutton or roast beef. |
(US/Ital.) used by southern Italians, a northern Italian.
| oral testimony in HDAS II. | |
| Cocktail 259: They think I’m a mountain guinea. | |
| (con. 1930s) Glorious: A Story of the CCC 12: ‘C’mon mountain guinea. Time’s a’wastin’.’ They walked down the path to the motor pool. | |
| Heretic: Confessions of an Ex-Catholic Rebel 148: Coach Fox threw up his hands in disgust. ‘You’re hopeless,’ he said. ‘I thought you’d be breaking two minutes with that other mountain guinea.’. |
1. a sheep’s head.
| Hereford Jrnl 1 Feb. 4/5: Vy, everybody knows [...] a mountain pecker is — lor bless me [...] vy, a sheep’s head. | |
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
| Letters by an Odd Boy 165: Some of the slang expressions, also, are simply funny; as, for example, when you call a sheep’s head ‘a mountain pecker’. | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Sporting Times 29 Mar. 2/1: The sheep’s-jimmies (or ‘mountain peckers’) were superb, whilst the ’74 Castle U.P. was a poem. |
2. a Welshman.
| Life and Work among Navvies 51: Why a Welshman should be termed a ‘Mountain-pecker’ [...] I must leave my readers to guess. |
(US) a derog. term for an Italian.
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 238: who ya tink ya hittin ya mountin wop. | |
| (con. 1960s) Wanderers 160: ‘Mountin’ Wop,’ said Curly. The colored guys slapped palms. |