lazy, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lazy adj.

1. used of the penis, semi-erect.

1970

San Diego Sailor 9: He had a lazy hardon.

2. (Aus.) anything one has gained without effort, e.g. money.

2004

R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘I had no desire to curb your enthusiasm.’ Yeah. Or miss out on the lazy hundred.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

lazy bed (n.)

(Aus.) cooked opossum.

1880

‘Edward Howe’ Roughing It in Van Diemen’s Land 37: Frank had had enough of ‘lazy bed’ – cooked ’possum.

lazyboots (n.) [on the pattern of slyboots under sly adj.]

a lazy person.

1844		J.C. Neal Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: [to a ‘corner lounger’] They sing out like good fellers, ‘Eh, waggybone! – Ho! ho! lazyboots! – hellow, loafer!’.
1863		E. Gaskell Sylvia’s Lovers III 102: Nancy [...] is gone to her bed this hour past, like a lazy boots as she is.
1884		McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 10 July 3/4: She says she don’t want to [...] work for a savage lazyboots.
1911		Sun (NY) 14 May 35/7: A similar proverb is, ‘Lazyboots working on a holiday’.

lazybum (n.)

(Aus.) a loafer.

1997

T. Winton Lockie Leonard, Legend (1998) 162: G’day, lazybum.

lazy J.

(N.Z. drugs/prison) marijuana that has been begged from someone else.

1999

D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 32: lazy j. n. Marijuana that is bludged off someone else.

lazy lob (n.) [lob n.³]

a semi-erect penis.

1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 670: [...] C.20.
2020		Twitter 18 July 🌐 He’s always got a lazy lob on.

lazy man’s load (n.)

a load that is too large to carry properly, in an attempt to avoid two trips.

c.1786

Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Lazy Mans Load a Lazy man will take up more than he can carry, to save the trouble of coming twice for it.

In phrases

lazy as Ludlam’s dog (adj.) [? according to Brewer Ludlam was a Surrey witch whose dog was so lazy that even when strangers approached it failed to bark; but poss. simply alliterative; note synon. Cornish ‘lurgy as Ludlow’s dog’]

very lazy.

c.1786

Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Lazy, as Lazy as Ludlam’s Dog who leaned his head against the wall to Bark.

lazy as the tinker (adj.)

very lazy.

c.1786

Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Lazy [...] as lazy as the Tinker who laid down his Budget to Fart.