Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to place, to put down.

1918		A.C. Huber Diary of a Doughboy 4 Sept. 🌐 I had to shove some dirty brute’s hob-nail shoes out of my face where he had parked them.
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 182: Girls ‘parking’ their corsets in the dressing-room.
1929		S. Rohmer Day the World Ended 59: Entertain M. Paul while I go and get my shoes. I parked ’em under a rosebush.
1936		K. Mackenzie Living Rough 188: They park their razors in their vest pockets.
1949		J.H. Burns Lucifer with a Book 103: Yes, if you park your gum.
1958		M. Allingham Hide My Eyes (1960) 207: I think he’s parking something he doesn’t want to keep on him. The gun, even.
1960		H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: Comes up to me, parks a bucket of rubbish at me tells me to take it out the back.
1978		D. DeLillo Running Dog (1992) 105: You parked one in his vest, case you didn’t know.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 26: A billabong of hot, salmon-pink chuck that Stan Blake had just parked on the top step.
1991		R. Doyle Van (1998) 591: The barman had come back with the wine. – Just park it there, son, Jimmy told the barman.
2012		A. Bergen ‘Dread Fellow Churls’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] They parked me in a waiting room.

2. to sit.

1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 200: What would become of the fraternity if all of us parked ourselves on our tails and gave the activities the air the way you do?
1930		K. Brush Young Man of Manhattan 137: But let’s park, will you? I’m tired.
1938		G. Kersh Night and the City 111: Come on, boys, park your bodies.
1939		Western Mail (Perth) 30 Nov. 2/1: Charlie [...] parks on our bit of brass rail.
1942		H. Miller Roofs of Paris (1983) 229: She has parked her ass in the warm spot I left on the chair.
1952		J. Cleary Sundowners 153: Mind if I park the rear end beside you for a while?
1959		F. Norman Fings II i: Park your ass and pin back yer lug ‘oles.
1961		B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 66: Tonker goes into the office with Olly and parks his frame.
1967		(con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 215: Park your butt, Rollo.
1970		D. Ponicsan Last Detail 171: You don’t have to park your ugly fat ass on the stool next to mine.
1982		J. Sullivan ‘Diamonds are for Heather’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Do you mind if I park me bott?
1989		M. Walker How to Kiss a Crocodile 75: Meantime Kerry and I had managed to park our bums on the bench seat.
1991		C. Hiaasen Native Tongue 295: You’re mutilating a fine chunk of island so a bunch of rich people have a warm place to park their butts in winter.
2000		T. Udo Vatican Bloodbath 37: Why don’t y’all just drop your pants and come on over here and park that cute heiney on mah big stiff rod and staff?
2005		C. Buzzell My War (2006) 36: I just parked it on the sofa in the living room.
2011		Independent 5 Oct. 7/1: Was it possible for him to park his bum in the Oval Office chair?
2016		A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 12: I parked at the kitchen table for a while and thought.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Hogan sat at one end of the table and Swann parked himself at the other.
2023		F. Bill Back to the Dirt 87: ‘Park it, motherfucker’.

3. to place oneself.

1920		R. Lardner Big Town 19: They race to the diner and park against the door and get quick action.
1929		C. Coe Hooch! 17: I can’t have bums like him parkin’ in my joint!
1940		D. Maurer Big Con 86: You park in front of the hotel dining room.
1959		D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) 29: I don’t know why she ’as to park ’erself on us.
1979		W. Kienzle Rosary Murders 101: I’ll go park my bones away for the night.
1998		C. Fleming High Concept 113: He would park himself on the curb.
2006		E. St Aubyn Mothers Milk 52: Get these two parked in front of a video.

4. (US) of a (usu.) teenage couple, to park in a secluded spot for petting and, perhaps, intercourse.

1929		implied in parker n.2
1930		M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 248: Parkin’ wid Money Johnson, dat’s whut dat mess o’ sin doin’.
1953		T. Runyon In For Life 36: He and a Skid Row hustler were parked in a country road.
1959		L.P. Boone ‘Gator Sl.’ AS XXXIV:2 155: If couples pair off, they’re off to the woods [...] to ‘park.’.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS.
1974		(con. late 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 435: She would not consent to park with him and let him fondle her winning entries.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 425: Oh, c’mon, Ben, nobody goes out and parks with his wife.

5. to get rid of someone or something; to knock someone out.

1952		(con. 1948) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 135: If you gave me the word, beautiful, I would of parked him.
1990		L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 79: You no think say that you could just park the buying and selling little make me and you reason bout somethings?
2022		Digga D. ‘G Lock’ 🎵 I cross the Blue bridge, clart off two quick (Bap) / Then park the broomstick [...] (Bap, bap, boom).

6. to give.

1962		R. Hauser Homosexual Society Appendix 3, 167: Park, give.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 146: park (Brit gay sl, fr Parlyaree parker = to hand over // It partire = to part with something) to give.