Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the female genitals (see cite 1952) and/or breasts.

1877		F.W. Benteen letter 8 Dec. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 109: [B. is referring to a lithograph of a cigar sellers’s flier, featuring a young woman with legs crossed, which he has enclosed and adorned with an erect penis] The ‘black spot’ fold in crease of her drawers is slightly suggestive of something better—i.e. to eyes so famished as are mine. I might put in equipment complete but refrain. The task is too exciting.
1940		‘They Drive By Night’ [film script] I was there with these two beautiful dames. What equipment!
1952		W.R. Burnett Vanity Row 225: ‘All right—so she’s a beauty. But they all got the same equipment— [...] and they all end up being a bore’.
1960		J. Havoc Early Havoc 230: ‘Minsky doesn’t expect me to...to be able to...’ ‘Are you kidding, Bobby scoffed, you haven’t got the equipment’.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS.
1987		‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 131: Some bimbos [...] jump around on the beach and jiggle their equipment.
2005		at www.superhot.com 🌐 Wendy Whoppers and her ‘huge’ equipment star in this exciting video [...] Watch her big boobs bounce up and down as she shows off her ‘many’ talents!

2. the male genitals.

1884		Randiana (1911) 101: [M]y large equipment, that had once been my pride and joy, is lying flaccid and useless, and impotence threatens me.
1890		C. Pearl in Blatchford Memoirs (1983) 120: His magnificent equipment fully extended.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1963–74		B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 25: I’m not going to lay here and let a bunch of Florence Nightingales get an eyeful of my equipment.
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 165: They don’t cut off your goddamned equipment when you put the collar on.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 94: It sits nicely under my tummy, just above my equipment like a marsupial.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 19: Angled mirrors in the johns so the tail-gunners could check out your equipment.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 23: Lift your equipment . . . good . . . turn around, bend over, and spread your cheeks . . . now cough.
2010		R. Rao Hostel Room 131 37: Siddarth played with his equipment as if it were a car’s gearshift [Simes:DLSS].
2012		G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 231: When a guy’s equipment doesn’t function anymore, it’s all over.
2014		http://theresmoretolifethanheavenandearth.wordpress.com 12 May 🌐 its allways fashioned me about men and the piece of equipment thay call there [sic] best friend.