Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the gallows; a hanging.

1811		Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Morning Drop. The gallows. He napped the king’s pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not hanged.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1811].
1833		‘The City Youth’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 140: But he naps the king’s mercy, and escapes the morning drop.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1861		Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 9 Nov. 216: Our game is dusty but we cannot stop; / It’s either fight or take the morning drop.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 50: Morning Drop, the gallows.
1901		Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: To him the hangman is the cramping-cull and the gallows the Government sign or the morning drop.

1. (US) something which or someone who fails to maintain an early promise, esp. in sporting contexts.

1904		Outing (NY) XLV 170/1: Didn’t I tell you he was nothing but a morning glory — why that dog couldn’t beat a ferry boat .
1925		D. Hammett ‘Corkscrew’ in Story Omnibus (1966) 217: ‘Ain’t you a swell mornin’-glory?’ he snarled.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Morning glory, race horse that works in fast time in the morning but fails to race well.
1938		AS XIII 30: Clubs which bloom luxuriantly early in the season, but which are expected to wilt ignominiously as the competition becomes hotter, are known as Morning Glories.
1942		N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 140: Tell the folks about yourself, Morning-Glory.
1952		in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: morning glory [...] a horse who performs spectacularly in morning workouts but fails to equal those performances in actual competition with other horses.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.

2. (US drugs) the first narcotic injection of the day.

1959

J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.

3. (Aus.) sexual intercourse before one gets up in the morning.

1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 76: Norton’s sleep was broken by Sophia’s moaning as she prepared him for her morning glory.
2020		LELO press release 18 June 🌐 Brits hankering for more morning glory One third of Brits want more morning sex - LELO says; give the people what they want.

4. an erection on waking.

2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 morning glory n. the erection men get when they wake.
2005		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz Apr. 47: bend it like Beckham v. The necessary penile shenanigans required to aim one’s wazz into the toilet bowl when in possession of a morning glory.
2007		D. McDonald Luck in the Greater West (2008) 13: – She woke me up tryin’ ta open the door [...] – Dodgin’ a mornin’ glory as well as last night.
2017		‘My Sister’ in asstr.org 🌐 As I stood I realized I had morning glory, my hard on poking out the bottom of my boxers.

(Ulster Protestant) the Irish News, published in Belfast with a definite Catholic/nationalist slant.

1979

J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 94: Taking their lead from what Prods call ‘The Morning Mick’.

see pride of the morning n.

1. a narcotics user’s first injection of the day.

1969

R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 182: morning shot wake-up.

2. any form of stimulant or amphetamine.

2001

ONDCP Street Terms 15: Morning shot — Amphetamine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).

(N.Z. prison) being confined to one’s cell on medical grounds.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/1: have morning sickness v. to be confined to one’s cell for medical reasons.

the right-wing Morning Post newspaper.

1832		Satirist (London) 11 Mar. 84/2: The Morning Slopbasin, and other congenial implements of literature, have been extolling to the very echo the generosity and magnanimity of Stephen Price, Esq.
1832		Bristol Mercury 9 June [4]/1: The Morning Slop-Basin says that the whole company at the Pitt Dinner joined heartily in the folIlowing part of the chorus [etc].
1836		Figaro in London 5-7 42: Our contemporary , The Morning Slop Basin, is a great friend of ours.
1848		C.F. Henningsen Analogies and Contrasts 2 269: Jenkins, of the Morning Slop-Basin, sat in the porter’s chair to take down fashionable names.

(UK Und.) one who specializes in thieving early in the morning; thus the act of doing so.

1718		C. Hitchin Regulator 19: The Morning-Sneek, alias that is to walk about the Streets in a Morning betimes, and ’sping any Body to go out of Doors, then immediately the Thief goes in.
1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 36: The Morning Sneak. On this Lay there are two together; one wears an Apron and the other a great Coat; they go in the Morning just as the Maids open the Doors and Windows, and glee into them; that is, look into them to see if there’s any Wage of any Sort [...] they wait an Opportunity till the Maid goes to make the Tinny, that is the Fire; when they go in and fisk all the Rooms.
1768		(con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in Groom (1999) xxvii: The Morning Sneak To walk betimes about the Street in the Morning, and, if you see any Body come out of Doors, you then slip in and take what you can find.
1777		J. Fielding Thieving Detected 24: The morning sneak goes out early in the morning, and those shops he sees with no one in, he makes bold to take the advantage of.
1781		G. Parker View of Society II 76: Morning Sneak is a fellow who watches the maid servants in houses when they open parlour-windows, &c., particularly if they carry the shutters backwards or up an entry. In this interval they sneak their heads into the casement [...] and take the first thing they can lay their hands on.
1791		‘Flash Lang.’ in Confessions of Thomas Mount 19: The evening or morning sneak, goods taken early in the morning or late in the evening.
1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang.
1825		‘All England Are Slanging It’ Universal Songster I 39/2: Ulloa, my covey, you seem to be out on the morning sneak there.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 31: Sneak, on the morning, sneaking down in the kitchen, &c., just as the servants are up, and purloining any small articles, commonly practised by cadgers.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open [as cit. 1835].

(drugs) the first blast of crack cocaine from the pipe.

1992		T. Williams Crackhouse 150: morning wake-up first blast of crack from the pipe.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 15: Morning wake-up — First blast of crack from the pipe.

see under wood n.¹

the state of being hungover after an excess of alcohol.

1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 200: Twenty more of them [i.e. sailors] in various stages of that next morning feeling.
1902		Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: It is no time for mirth and laughter, / The cold, gray dawn of the morning after!
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Dec. 48/1: It was Johnson, the Morning After the Night Before. Clean-shirted, clean-collared and clean-socked; also cleaned out and tray-bitless.
1915		R.D. Doughty diary 19 Sept. 🌐 Suffering acutely from some minor complaint usually diagnosed as ‘The morning after the night before.’.
1932		J.L. Kuethe ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 338: woofits — ailment that comes with ‘the morning after the night before.’.
1934		Ex-Légionnaire 1384 Legion of the Lost 129: I admired her. A fine woman who could show no signs of the night before!
1949		Wodehouse Mating Season 6: None the less a sound stand-by on the morning after.
1957		‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 111: ‘Mornin’ after,’ said Jimmy [...] ‘Gotta save some fer ter-morrer. Nothin’ worse than the day after a do, an’ no grog left.’.
1966		C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 95: You come in here and catch me looking like the morning after and expect me to be beautiful and demure.
1981		W. Boyd Good Man in Africa 164: ‘I’ve got a rather lax grip on things today [...] Touch of the morning afters’.
2000		Guardian Sport 1 Apr. 12: A medical site helping drinkers overcome the morning afters.