tug, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tug v.

[SE tug]

1. of a man, to have sexual intercourse [2000s use, US black].

1619–22		Fletcher Custom of the Country III iii: Tug at an Oar? no, tug in a Feather-bed, With good warm Caudles; hang your bread and water, I’le make you young again, believe that Lady. I will so frubbish you.
1656		R. Fletcher Ex Otio 82: I love a Lasse that’s apt, and plain doth goe, ... And being one can tugg with half a Score.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 tug Definition: fuck a hoe Example: I tugged that bitch.

2. (orig. Aus.) to masturbate.

1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 115/2: tug to masturbate.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 86: ‘Look at that cunt!’ he laughed, pointing at the tugging taxi driver on the floor.
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] This loser obviously spent most of his time tugging his dick.
2013		J. Stahl Bad Sex on Speed 78: The five-day penis chafe. Product of non-stop cross country tugging.
2017		L. McInerney Blood Miracles : ‘God forbid you’d have to tug your own prick for a while’.

tug-mutton (n.) (also tug-muffin) [mutton n. (1a)/mutton n. (3)]

1. a pimp.

1607		G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: For I, knowing you all three to be covetous tug-muffins, will not trust you with the sight of each other’s beauty.
1630		J. Taylor ‘Great Eater of Kent’ in Hindley Works (1872) 5: For though he be chaste of his body, yet his mind is only upon flesh, he is the only Tugmutton, or Muttonmonger, between Dover and Dunbar.
1821		W. Scott Pirate II 330: Since an alias has such virtue, poor Dick Fletcher might have come off as Timothy Tugmutton.
[1825		C.M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I 80: Tug Muttons, or Tugs, collegers, foundation scholars; an appellation given to them by the oppidans, in derision of the custom [...] of living entirely on roast mutton].
1849		Sam Sly 5 May 3/1: We advise W. T—ll, alias Toothy Tugmutton, [...] not to try to enlighten the coast-guard, by telling them what he would have done to the Sihks had he been Lord Gough.
[1882		G.A. Sala in Living London (1883) Nov. 507: I remember when I was young that the ‘collagers’ at Eton were called ‘tug-muttons’].

2. the penis.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 78: Cornichon, m. The penis; ‘the tug-mutton.’.
c.1904		A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 25: Laura had his tug-mutton to her own cheek.

tug one’s slug (v.)

see under slug n.³

tug one’s taffy (v.) (also pull one’s taffy)

(US) to masturbate.

1997–99		AllAboutSex.org 🌐 ‘Words for Masturbation’ [...] 339. Taffy pulling contest. 340. Taffy tugger.
2003		Number One Adult Sexual Health Terms Advisor 🌐 Masturbation Slang Male Terms: [...] taffy tugging.

tug (a head) (v.)

(Aus. Und.) to distract someone’s attention while a crime is being committed.

1975

Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Apr. 45: So we send in Limp to tug the tart minding the willy.

tug-button Tuesday (n.)

the Tuesday before Advent.

1860

tug someone’s/the coat (v.)