Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a fellator or fellatrix.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues II 144/1: Cock-sucker, a fellatrix.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Family Connections 36: The boys [...] called us [i.e. girls] a pair of dear little cock-suckers.
1916		Docs of the Assembly of the State of NY 783: Here is Jacobs: surely you must know him; he is a notorious cock-sucker.
1919		Transcript Foster Inq. in L.R. Murphy Perverts by Official Order (1989) 11: Fred Hoage (better known as ‘Theda Bara’) and John Gianelloni (‘Ruth’), both ‘cocksuckers’ [Ibid.] 58: I never told anyone that I was a queen or a cocksucker or a pogue.
1919		R. Connor in Kohn American Political Prisoners (1994) 67: You lying diseased piece of filthy scum. You damn lover of stool pigeons and degenerates. You god damn unsophisticated, unprincipled narrow minded cock sucker. You dirty bastard. You lying belly robbing thief.
1925		E. Hemingway Letter to Ezra Pound in Observer 7 Mar. (2004) 15: Fewer bulls are homosexual. Bulls may bugger but they are not cocksuckers.
1934		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 90: There was a young fellow named Tucker / Who, instructing a novice cock-sucker.
c.1940		‘Donald Duck Has a Universal Desire’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 42: Godammit, suck [...] I hate cocksuckers, but who am I to carp?
1942		H. Miller Roofs of Paris (1983) 263: That cock sucker’s mouth, that cunt licker’s mouth.
a.1954		‘Ball of the Freaks’ in D. Wepman et al. Life (1976) 110: Cocksuckers by the dozens, motherfuckers and their cousins.
1959		‘Count Palmiro Vicarion’ Limericks 61: The priest, a cocksucker named Sheen.
1967		‘Philip Barrows’ Whores, Queers & Others I [ebook] I hated the sneaky old cocksucker and I hated myself for letting him blow me and because it had felt so good.
1977		R. Hawkins Bimbos by the Bay (1998) 23: Abbey proved herself to be a first-rate cock-sucker.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 195: How do you get rid of a second-rate cock sucker working in tandem with a first-rate ass licker?
1983		Tharunka (Sydney) 2 May 21/3: They were hot in Adelaide we went down in Brisbane like a cock-sucker with back problems Melbourne’s always the same, you always pull the same crowd in Melbourne.
1986		F. Pitt-Kethley Sky Ray Lolly 16: We were ready to try anything once / and sang ‘I will make you fishers of men’, / even the little cocksucker in pink.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 178: Film cans, smutty titles: [...] Cocksucker’s Paradise.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 38: The prison infirmary is full of dying faggots and cocksuckers.
2002		Simon & Burns ‘Old Cases’ Wire ser. 1 ep. 4 [TV script] He got a lot of heart for a cocksucker.
2010		M. Gleich Sarge and the Sailor Boy n.p.: Eat my dick, cock-sucker [...] Fuck yeah. Take my fuckin load cock-sucker.

2. (US) the vagina.

1902

D. St John Memoirs of Madge Buford 109: ‘Show them your cunts.’ Leaning back we opened the lips of our ruby cock suckers.

3. (also cocklicker) an abusive term, generally considered to be one of the worst; also attrib [note sucker n.³ ].

1905		‘State v. White’ law report in Southwestern Reporter Vol. 87 1190: When Nolan started behind the bar, he said, ‘You cocksucker! I will kill you before night!’.
1911		cited in G.W. McFarland Inside Greenwich Village (2001) 161: About five minutes ago the cop said to me, ‘Beat it.’ But I said ‘You cocksucker! I can’t walk fast; my feet are sore.’.
1920		C. Sandburg letter 30 Mar. in Mitgang (1968) 183: They babble hysterically only one or two epithets, in our language usually a tenor of ‘Son of a Bitch’ with a bass of ‘Cocksucker’.
1928		A.C. Inman diary in Aaron (1985) 25 Oct. 386: ‘That goddamn cocksucker,’ he swore. ‘Wouldn’t I like to get my hands on his dirty hide!’.
1932		(con. 1919) Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen in USA (1966) 724: Atten’SHUN suck in your gut you c––r.
1945		in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) 263: Yeah! The little cocksucker!
1950		Kerouac letter 3 Dec. in Charters I (1995) 239: I don’t see how these cocksuckers could have done a better job trying to fuck me up.
1967		H.S. Thompson letter 22 Oct. Proud Highway (1997) 646: That motherfucking black-minded pig-whipping cocksucker.
1974		A. Burgess Clockwork Testament in Complete Enderby (2002) 409: One of his callers [...] had once called him a toothless cocksucker.
1975		T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 154: Laverne smiled sweetly and said: ‘Go piss up a rope, you cheap wop.’ He nodded politely. ‘Cocklicker.’.
1979		S. King Dead Zone (1980) 193: Get out of here, you cheap cocksucker.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 169: I don’t bet with the cocksucker. I don’t drink at the cocksucker’s bar, or live at his cocksucking fleabag hotel.
1991		J. Osborne Déjàvu Act I: Snow White, you cocksucker.
2004		C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 320: I still can’t believe that yuppie cocksucker shot you.
2009		T. Black Gutted 264: Rise and shine, cocksucker.
2010		J. Ellroy Hilliker Curse 6: They bilked the old cocksuckers and sent them to the poorhouse.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] You, you fucking cocksucker, say it’s nothing to do with me?
2012		M. Lacher On the Bro’d 296: [The] dude totally knew what a cocksucker move he was pulling.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] [T]he cop-hating CCRB, which Phil Russo insists stands for ‘Cunts, Cocksuckers, Rats and Ballbusters,’ but is actually the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 248: ‘They’re not whistleblowers, they’re cocksuckers’.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 373: I was cringing in some of the things he was saying, like cursing, ‘those fucking cocksuckers,’ like crazy shit.

4. (Aus.) attrib. use of sense 2, the image is of sycophancy.

2005

P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] And presto, six months later Hopgood and his cocksucker offsiders were running the show again.

5. (Aus.) a US soldier; spelling in cits. (cark-sucker) suggests the aping of US accents by Australians and the sterotyping of the frequency of the word’s use.

1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 15: carksuccer — An American soldier.
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: cark sucker. An American Soldier.

6. a male homosexual; thus his mouth.

1927		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana I 67: A notorious cock-sucker was once caught going down on one of the Singer midgets. His friends ridiculed him, [...] Whereupon, the fairy, smiling mysteriously, said, [...] ‘Doctor’s orders. I’m on a diet.’.
1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 72: Come on ya cocksucker. Stop the shit.
1970		E. Tidyman Shaft 33: The little cocksucker would probably whip his dum-dum right out of the socket.
1982		(con. 1970) J.M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley (1983) 242: Honky’s fag. You jive with them cocksuckers in Fag Hilton.
1995		G. Pelecanos Down by the River 117: ‘That guy is an actor. Sure, it gets on my nerves. I got to listen to him run his cocksucker all day long’.
1996		(con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 225: ‘Poosti,’ said Costa. [...] ‘What did he call me?’ ‘Cocksucker,’ said Karras.
1998		K. Anderson Night Dogs 95: ‘Do I have a cocksucker in my barracks, sergeant?’.

7. (US black/Southern) one who performs cunnilingus [cock n.⁴ (1)].

1943		(con. 1890s) W.L. McAtee Dial. Grant County (IN) Supplement 3: Cocksucker, n. Could be either sex operating on either sex. Also used as a term of reprobation not to be understood literally.
1964		R.D. Abrahams Deep Down in the Jungle 214: [O]ld dirty slim, was what you would, call a bushwhacker, a nose diver, a canyon youdler, well in other words a cocksucker, or just say that he ate pussy.
1969		J. Crumley One to Count Cadence 147: The term ‘cocksucker’ [...] in the South refers not to fellatio but cunnlingus.

8. an object, no pej. implied.

1977		L. Heinemann Close Quarters (1987) 101: Which one a you motherfuckers got the goddamn grease gun? [...] Come on, which one a you liberated that cocksucker.
1986		S. King It (1987) 467: He th’owed it into first, popped the clutch on that cocksucker, and here he come!
2012		M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] I couldn’t smoke. Hadn’t bought a pack of those cocksuckers in two weeks.

9. (US) the mouth.

1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 155: He could ask a girl to a restaurant [...] but what for, to sit there and listen to some broad run her cocksucker all night?
2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 28: An Officer orders an inmate to ‘open ya cock sucker (mouth) and stick out ya ball licker (tongue)!’.

10. something distasteful, unpopular.

1984

D. Jenkins Life Its Ownself (1985) 164: I don’t know what pea-brain scheduled that cocksucker!

11. (US black) in pl., the lips.

2000

Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 cocksuckers Definition: lips Example: Shut your cocksucker’s bitch.