Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a homosexual male, also attrib., Aus prison use specifies a man who aggressively takes the penetrative role in anal sex (see cites 1971, 1972, 1990 [2]) .

1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 789: anus bandit – A convicted sodomist.
1971		J. McNeil Chocolate Frog 31: You’ll find it in the Old testament that a dog was what was called a sodomite — an arse bandit.
1972		Parramatta Jail Gloss. B. Moore (ed.) (2023) 44: arse bandit person prepared to rape a male if need be.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 155: The sexually dominant prisoner [...] is called anus bandit.
1972		‘Shane Baxter’ Factory Girl n.p.: [She] found their favorite retreat had been invaded by a couple of arse-bandits, a fair haired youth and a middle-aged man.
1977		A. Bleasdale Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed 49: The arse bandit woodwork teacher.
1977		G. Melly Rum, Bum and Concertina (1978) 67: You’re an arse-bandit what acts like ’e was a brown ’atter.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 27: Save that guff for the arse-banditti and let’s hear what you’re after.
1979		Maledicta III:2 222: The aggressiveness of the younger ass-bandit who wants to score in sex as a game is, in the older homosexual, taken as evidence he is a dizzy queen.
1981		J. Sullivan ‘Go West Young Man’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] He’s definitely a bandit that one. Tonight we dance with our backs to the wall, Rodney!
1984		Flame : a Life on the Game 58: There were fifteen policemen in the room [...] they called me everything – ‘arse-bender’, ‘queer’, ‘cock-sucker’.
1986		A. Bleasdale No Surrender 44: Faggots [...] Arse bandits.
1986		S. King It (1987) 34: I ought to make you eat that hat, you fucking ass-bandit!
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 70: He’s a Moonie or somethin’, isn’t he? [...] And an arse bandit.
		1990 Tupper & Wortley Prison Sl. n.p.: Arse-bandit a sexually-active homosexual who associates with passive gays mainly for sex.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 136: This pure fucking bandit comes mincing into the line of fire [...] This lad’s a monster, camp as fuck and right in your face with his Big Hom act.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 122: Nongalosh was the prison word for arse bandit.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 335: Right, well then, we’ll have you in the kitchen, working with Chef, the Cream-Shirt-lifting arse bandito pouts in petty triumph.
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] You’re about the biggest asshole I ever met in my life [...] Better than being an ass-bandit though ain’t it.
2015		N. ‘Razor’ Smith Criminal Alphabet 144: Arse bandit, a predatory homosexual who will take what he wants, by force if neceesary.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers [14]: — Right, you fucking raving arse bandit, up to that bar and make mine a double Macallan’s!