twig n.3
1. (Irish) a club, a shillelagh.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Regiment 18 Apr. 42/2: A bit of a shillelagh was all the arms he bore— / A purty light blackthorn I cut him in Dramore. / ‘Come on, ye baste,’ says he, ‘an’ taste the weight of me counthry’s twig’. |
2. (US black) a tree.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
3. (US black) a human leg.
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
4. a marijuana cigarette.
| cited in Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink (1986). |
5. (US campus) a notably thin person.
| Sl. U. |
6. (US drugs) a very small piece of crack cocaine.
| Fortress of Solitude 383: He showed me what was a rock and what was a pebble and a twig. He and I smoked a few of these. |
7. the penis.
| Amer. Pie 2 [film script] kevin: So, how are the twig and giggleberries this morning? jim: Oh, very colorful, my dick looks like a paint by number. |
8. (US) a finger.
| ‘One More Day Can’t Hurt’ in ThugLit Apr. [ebook] These old twigs [...] Had they ever been good fingers or were they always just old twigs? |
In compounds
the male genitals.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 245: twig and berries the male pudendum. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 13: twig and berries – male genitals. | |
 | Twitter 25 July 🌐 In preparing eunuchs, why do some cultures cut off the, ahem, twig & berries, and others just the berries? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I [...] dropped me duds and climbed out over the water swaying in the breeze. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to die, as if one were a bird.
| in Life and Death of Sandy Stone (1991) 78: I just had a horrible dream. I dreamed I dropped off the twig. | |
| Breaking Out 104: I’ll drop off the twig in some style. | |
| Complete Barry McKenzie 12: Feeling giddy. Perhaps I’m droppng off this twig. | |
| Observer Rev. 24 June 3: When I do drop off the twig, I fear it’s going to say on my gravestone: ‘Japanese game show man dies.’. |
to die.
| Layer Cake 49: What shillings her old boy left when he fell off the twig went on death duties. |
see separate entry.
(Aus.) to lose emotional control.
| Lily on the Dustbin 184: Family members [...] will long remember tht day mum ‘blew her top’, ‘snapped her twig’, ‘popped her cork’, ‘did her block’ and ‘chucked a willy.’. |