Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a pipeful of tobacco.

1769		‘Philolethes’ Pluralist 5: Bear just another Glass, and nine Corns more.
1770		Reading Mercury 24 Sept. 4/1: Ode on a Pipe of Tobacco [...] At length when he’s arrived at home [...] /Takes supper and a cup of slum, / And nine corns more.
1797		‘T.B. Junr.’ Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: I thought I might as well drop in and take Nine Corns with you.
1802		Sporting Mag. Apr. 14/2: I have known the time when he would have gone on with ‘nine corns more,’ till the clock had struck two.
1817		Norfolk Chron. 11 Jan. 3/2: From whence originates this common saying, when some smokers are preparing for the last pipe? — ‘I’ll take nine corns more’.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, etc. 126: After he is roused, the doser prepares to take ‘nine corns more’ of tobacco, and ‘nine whiffs’ at his pipe.
1830		R. Forby Cocab. E. Anglia 77: A smoker is pressed by his companions, at the ‘heel of the evening,’ to lengthen their placid enjoyment of the pipe, with ‘Come! put in nine corns more’.
1842		New Mthly Mag. pt. 3 101: I’m going to have nine corns more, and then Juggenel and Brown Bury will have digested their corn; they've earned their oats to-day.
1856		P. Thompson History & Antiquities Boston 702: ‘Take nine corns more;’ an invitation to another pipe or glass.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.

(US campus) intoxicated.

[1675		Woman Turn’d Bully V i: Call a Coach, ye Rogue – for I can drink no more, ye Rogue – but will go home like a Prince, ye Son of a Nine-eyes].
1979		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 5: nine-eyed – drunk.

the penis.

1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk IV 233: I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool (this he said lugging out and exhibiting his nine-inch knocker) they so soundly and resolutely shove and drive in.
c.1962		E. Jones ‘Dirty Dozens’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 242: Made him an ass, that ass made him sick, / Wasn’t satisfied till he made him an nine-inch stick.
[2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 13: [I] handed her a card [...] There’s my name, phone number, and ‘Mr Nine Inches’].

see nine n. (2)

pregnancy.

1832

Satirist (London) 26 Feb. 67/3: Mrs. Wilds, although confined (I do not mean with a nine-month fever), bears her ill fate with becoming fortitude.

(US drugs) a quarter of a kilogram (i.e. 9 oz).

2014

Young Jeezy ‘Quarter Block’ 🎵 All about getting that quarter block / 250 straight, 9 piece straight drop.

the body.

1879

G.R. Sims Dagonet Ballads 3: It’s a cold I caught last year, / As has tumbled my ninepins over, and lef me a-dyin’ here.

the cat-o’-nine-tails.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues V 46/2: Nine-tail bruiser (or mouser), subs. phr. (prison).—The cat-o’-nine-tails.
1924		(con. late 19C) C.J. Finger Bushrangers 33: Let me tell you I’d rather have the nine-tail-bruiser than this.

a very brief nap.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1849		Tale of Wind and Waves 145: I think I have been to sleep! Two hours? No, no! only nine winks.
1892		B.W. Richardson Asclepiad 9 139: A few seconds of sleep — nine winks, literally — will come over the wearied watcher.
1950		Trans-Communicator 67 33: The two days a week does help wonderfully, especially to those who work the third shift — seems good to get that extra nine winks.
1968		J. Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz [ebook] The thirty-one-year-old captain was constantly looking thru binoculars, [...] drinking coffee, trying to catch nine winks.
2008		V.P. Sawhney Legacy to Bureaucracy 148: The bumps [i.e. in the road] had gradually lulled every one into catching their nine winks.

in all sorts of ways; comprehensively; early uses usu. as looking nine ways for Sunday, in a state of confusion.

1822		‘Marmaduke Merrywhistle’ Isn’t It Odd? I 240: Squinting people are said to look nine ways for Sunday. ‘that must be at the seven dials,’' said Mr. Tirlogh O'Rourke.
1835		Cassimer Saral 22: We must be like a blind horse, and look nine ways for Sunday.
1845		‘Harry Hieover’ Stable Talk 75: He would very soon, as Dick would say, ‘begin to look nine ways for Sunday’.
1852		Herefords. Times 17 Jan. 5/5: She left the inn, leaving the host and hostess ‘looking nine ways for Sunday’.
1865		Paisley Herald 9 Sept. 6/4: If Brother Williams had attempted to hit him he would make him (Brother Williams) look nine ways for Sunday.
1876		York Herald 17 Mar. 8/6: After the first mile of the gallop Lacey’s admirers looked nine ways for Sunday.
1883		Era (London) 7 July 15/2: As a waggish friend of ours observed, ‘it was like looking nine ways for Sunday’.
1895		Cornishman 31 Jan. 8/1: Ef the men doan’t stan back a bit an give thum elbaw room Master Baazeley an the rest of the men will be opsot an looken nine ways for Sunday.
1929		(con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 228: So decided to hit big boy trompin’ along. Hit him an’ looked like throwed him ’bout three ways an’ Sunday.
c.1940		‘Benny Goodman in “Swing on This!”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 105: When I get back to Horse’s Neck I can tell everyone that I laid Benny Goodman three ways.
1941		Taunton Courier 13 Sept. 6/4: There’s no need of lookin’ all nine ways fer Sunday.
1943		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 29 May 13: When you play the game, three ways sides and flats and sraight across the board, you’re doing some big league batting.
1998		Wookiee ‘Everybody Loves Luther’ on Badger’s Burrow 🌐 This guy has been fucked nine ways from breakfast, by those two lovers, Krolik and Rockwell.
1999		J. Stahl Perv (2001) 301: I catch a possession beef, I’m fucked nine ways to Sunday.
2006		B. Appleton Wide Boy 125: I could kick myself nine ways to Sunday for not checking the car over.
2012		B. Woolston Catch & Release 156: That is fucked up nine ways from Sunday, Polly.
2018		C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘They’re fucked six ways to Sunday’.