Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. Aus) a person; a thing.

1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 29 Apr. 1/1: Larrikins are painfully prevalent on the Midland Junction line [and] a unit has small chance of fair play at their hands.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS.
2002		50 Cent ‘Wanksta’ 🎵 We in the club doing the same ol’ two step / Gorilla unit cause they say we bugged out / Cause we don’t go nowhere without toast we thugged out.
2006		(con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 58: [E]ach unit individually raised his nightstick, tapped his shield, and said, ‘Remember Cardillo’ .
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I was a big unit. hit the earth at around 10 pounds and wasn’t short of admirers if I remember correctly.
2020		D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 211: ‘You’re a weak unit who gets himself beaten up’.

2. the vagina.

1975

J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 283: He said he’d like to rebush somebody by sticking a picnic ham in her unit and pulling the bone out.

3. the penis.

1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
1996		T. Wolff ‘Bullet in the Brain’ in The Night in Question 204: [H]er unembarrassed carnality, and especially the cordial way she had with his unit, which she called Mr. Mole.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: unit n. Penis. As in: ‘I slipped her my unit.’.
2002		Eight Hand Reviews ‘Devinn Lane’s Succulent Blossom’ Adult Novelty Reviews 🌐 These silly devices seem to all carry the same Modus Operandus. That is; lube up, insert, stroke ’till your unit pukes up it’s [sic] love juices.
2008		Simon & Burns ‘Combat Jack’ Generation Kill ep. 4 [TV script] He can jerk off to anything. I’ve seen him punishing his unit during a screening of Pocahontas.
2013		J. Stahl Bad Sex on Speed 74: The hard-but-ragged unit, still going in and out, is now numb as a frostbit foot.

4. (orig. US campus, also female unit) a girl, a woman.

1982		W. Safire What’s The Good Word? 304: We can pound a few brews and scope the local units (who are all too often grimbos).
1984		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 3: female unit – girlfriend.
2003		www.thepantsman.com 🌐 Group after group of tidy young units strolling past on warm nights, wearing next to nothing.
2004		L. Redhead Peepshow [ebook] Are you fucked in the head, woman? [...] You have got to be the stupidest fucking unit I have ever met.

5. (US) used in compound to denote a given type, determined by the additional noun.

1991		D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 64: I enclosed a note. ‘Yo, Captain Hipness: Hope this thread is bad enough to wear to a pizzafest. [...] Love. The Dad Unit’ .
2005		D. Jenkins Slim & None 173: I said, ‘I’ll grant you he can pass for a surf unit, but he’s never done anything but play golf’.

6. (UK black) a physically imposing individual.

2016		annotation to genius.com 🌐 Side note: There are few MCs that are physically as big as MC Det. Man’s a unit.
2018		G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] He was bent and grey with faded eyes, but you could see he’d been a unit in his day.

7. (US drugs) a single measure of cocaine.

2014

Young Jeezy ‘Me OK’ 🎵 34 a unit, nine hundred a O.