dip v.2
1. to pick a pocket.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | implied in dip into | |
| More Mornings in Bow St. 44: The prisoner [...] denied he had dipped at all. | |
| Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 8/2: Had we taken our tickets of admission before we ‘dipped’ we could have gone along to the stand. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 7 Sept. n.p.: [He] has also been arrested on suspicion of ‘dipping’ a woman out of $8. | |
| ‘The Jargon of Thieves’ in Derry Jrnl 8 Sept. 6/5: If a man steals a purse from a pocket he is said to ‘dip a poke’ . | |
| Sheffield Dly Teleg. 16 Mar. 5/3: A Child Pickpocket [...] hen her opportunity arose she dipped into the pocket of unsuspecting victims. | |
| Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I dipped ’is kettle and parst it along’. | |
| Powers That Prey 152: ‘Soapy’ and ‘Frenchy’ ‘dipped’ deep with impunity. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/2: Is there a single one of the [...] welshers that do not do a bit of dipping whenever an opportunity arises. | |
| Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang Oct. 40: From opium to ‘dipping’ and thieving, / She artfully led day by day. | |
| 25 Years in Six Prisons 54: If you don’t want to get ‘dipped’ [...] buy a penn’orth of them small nuts and put them in your pocket with your cash. | |
| Phenomena in Crime 196: She dipped me for my lot. | |
| Und. Nights 203: Conmen con, dips dip, drummers drum. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiv 4/3: dip in willy: Steal from a person’s pocket. | |
| Street Players 42: I’ve been trying to teach her how to dip. | |
| Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 158: Learning how to rob somebody with finesse. You know, to dip. To go in a person’s wallet, put the wallet back in the pocket, and button it back up. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | The Joy (2015) [ebook] Johnny’s criminal record consists of nothing more serious than dipping pockets. | |
| Hooky Gear 169: Age 20 I shortload an overload, filch an dip an half-inch. [Ibid.] 257: Anyway he’ll come up with a story how he got jumped or dipped or whatever. | |
| Viva La Madness 292: That’s our kid [...] dipping the pocket of a dead man. |
2. to rob a till; thus dipping n.
| Jottings from Jail 24: Another of the trade has ‘dipped a lob for 6 quid’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Dec. 16/4: ‘He borrowed £168 of that from me last night!’ / ‘Ah, an’ he told you he’d been “dipping”?’. | |
| Marsh 126: If it’s not screwin’, it’s parlour-jumpin’ or dippin’ the lob. | |
| You Flash Bastard 99: The man [...] scoffed when Sneed asked if his tills were always correct. Bank personnel weren’t capable of dipping. | |
| Viva La Madness 12: The desk staff were blatantly dipping the till. |
3. (Aus.) to seize, to arrest.
| Truth (Brisbane) 25 July 3/3: ‘Gaw-lumme! yer oughter talk after that “thimble-’n’-sling” racket, in Chow’s Alley, when the “demon” dipped yer from- under the bed in Red Mag’s bug house’. |
4. to steal, to take away, e.g. a prostitute’s clients; thus dipping n.
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 271: Danny Barber had his string of bookstores to dip into with those long, white, artistic fingers. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 108: Ida’s Otter Creek neighbours [...] thought it tacky that she boasted of her double-dipping from Social Security. | |
| Homeboy 7: He made a practice of sending to hell [...] flatbackers dipping his girls’ business. |
5. (UK Black) to stab, thus dipper, a knife.
 | ‘Mandem Salute’ 🎵 Dip Dip in a mans face, woosh woosh turn a man duppy. | |
| ‘No Hook’ 🎵 Chef, chef swim, dip man down make him drown in his blood. | |
| (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Dipper - knife. |
6. (UK Black) of a man, to have (adulterous) sexual intercourse.
| [ | | ‘The Original Black Joke. Sent from Dublin’ 🎵 The Lawyer his clients cause wd quit / To dip his pen in the bottomless pit / Of a Coal black &c]. |
| ‘marisol and skeeter’ in What They Found 186: ‘I can’t be running around dipping here and dipping there like my old man. I want something serious’. | |
| ‘Waps’ 🎵 Dip, dip, dip, dip, from qway dipping's been cray. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) an act of sexual intercorse.
| Swell’s Night Guide 93: My bushy grot, as black as sloes, / Is surely worth a dip-in. |
1. to pick a pocket.
| Sporting Mag. n.p.: Defence of Groves at Bristol Assizes. I have dipped into 150 [...] pockets and not found a shilling [F&H]. | |
| DSUE (1984) 311/2: from ca. 1810. |
2. to have sexual intercourse.
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 25 Oct. n.p.: A lascivious old Dutch billy-goat [...] wished to dip into the sweets of a young German girl (sweet sixteen) . | |
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 386: A hustler like Paddy Jenks to bring her ice cream and Horse and hotstick cats who had to dip into her honey. | |
| Blue Movie (1974) 15: She (cheerfully): ‘Say, how about a dip?’ He (suggestively): ‘I wouldn’t mind dipping into you, baby!’. |
3. (US) to attack physically.
| in Four Brothers in Blue (1978) 17 Sept. 109: They ‘dipped into’ that fellow and beat him shockingly. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus.) an act of urination.
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 82: If the garcons see youse don’t like their tucker they’re not averse to having a dip-around. |
(US) an insignificant, foolish or dull person; also adj. use meaning foolish.
| Rogue Warrior (1993) 278: What kind of dip-dunk shit-for-brains asshole idea is that, Ted? [Ibid.] 380: dip-dunk: nerdy asshole. |
see separate entries.
In phrases
(US gay) to have anal intercourse.
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 anal intercourse [...] Syn: dip in the fudge pot. | |
| ‘Anal Sex’ at www.sexsherpa.com 🌐 Rectal reamings and ass invasions uncensored and explicit inside! [...] Dip in the fudge pot. |
to have sexual intercourse.
| (con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 106: ‘Of all the guys to be dipping it . . .’ Bingo said. | |
| Viz June/July 25: I’ve dipped it a few times, I can tell you. |
see under beak n.2
1. to be mildly tipsy, to be nearly drunk.
| Friendship in Fashion III i: If I but dip my Bill I am giddy. Now I am as hot-headed with my bare two Bottles, as a drunken Prentice on Holyday. | |
| Dict. Canting Crew. | |
| ‘Drinkers Dictionary’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK. [...] Has Dipp’d his Bill. |
2. to consume, usu. a drink.
| Sut Lovingood’s Yarns 146: He’d been dippin his bill into a crock ove chicken gray [sic]. | |
| Young Man of Manhattan 97: Dip your bill into that! | |
| ‘Pearls Are a Nuisance’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 129: Better dip the bill, Walter. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. |
see under lid n.
(W.I.) to interfere where one’s interest is not required.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | cited in Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996). |
(US black/prison) to dig a hole.
| N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 21 Mar. 16: ‘I didn’t have to [...] dig snuff with that North Carolina fork’. |
see under wick n.1
see under south adv.
see dip one’s bill
see under dagger n.1
(US black) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 153: The male sex organ itself is seen as a tool for penetrating women: to dip the fly, to poke. |
see under schnitzel n.
see under weenie n.1
In exclamations
(Aus.) a dismissive retort.
| Riverslake 163: ‘Dip your eye,’ Randolph said with gutter coarseness, putting into the words as much as he could of his dislike of Condamine. | |
| (con. 1940s) Sowers of the Wind 203: ‘Oh dip your eye!’ Stewart told him testily. |