stock n.1
cheek; often as good stock.
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SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus.) a stockman; thus stockbanging n., working on a cattle farm.
![]() | Tramp-Royal 209: A desire took possession of me to take a turn at stockbanging. [Ibid.] 212: Young gins are also employed in this capacity and often make better stockbangers than the ‘boys’. |
(US prison) a convict who curries favour with the authorities.
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![]() | DAUL 212/2: Stockholder. (P) A convict who works so zealously in the state’s interest that he is held in contempt by fellow prisoners. | et al.
In phrases
the genitals.
[ | ![]() | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour, London Poor IV 248/1: They call me ‘Old Stock;’ why I shan’t tell you, though I might easy, and make you laugh too, [...] I was once the swellest woman about town]. |
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