end n.
1. as a part of the body.
(a) the penis; esp. in get one’s end away
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Faerie Queene Bk IV Canto vii: She staid not th’utmost end thereof to try. | |
| (trans.) Rabelais III 18: She will suck me at my best End. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 19: Dinner Sentiments [...] A Pushing man of Business — Make both Ends meet. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Bawdy N.Y. State MS. n.p.: ‘But the end seems a bit too big.’ ‘Perhaps the hole’s too small.’. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 16: There was a young man of Ostend / Who let a girl play with his end. / She took hold of Rover [etc.]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1944) Rats in New Guinea 88: A week-end with that [...] I’ll bet ya had a weak end after that. | |
| Habeus Corpus Act I: You go home and get your knickers / And I’ll race you to the vicar’s / And it’s ends away. | |
| Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed 22: I want me end away as well. | |
| Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 19: Filthy soldiers sticking their ends up some poor tyke. |
(b) (also butt-end, lower end) the vagina, the female genitals.
| Fleire IV i: Come to her as countrie Gentlewomen doe into the fashion, that is: in the taile and latter end on’t. | |
| Wild-Goose-Chase IV ii: Do not I know thee for a pestilent Woman? A proud at both ends? | |
| [ | | Practical Part of Love 23: Such a glutton she was, that not contented with what she did devour there her self, but likewise she would (forsooth) have what her companion did eat, (but at second hand) she cannot but be fat, that is thus fed at both ends]. |
| Fortune’s Bounty 5: The failings of his Wife’s low’r end. | |
| Northern Cuckold in Misc. IV 23: The Honour of his Wife’s But-end. | |
| ‘Hypocrisy Lampoon’d’ in Miscellaneous Works IV 140: [She] vows her Life to mend, If Heav’n would so dispose her, But all the while her lustful end In spite of Grace, says No Sir. | |
| ‘Dutch Industry’ Poems (1752) 126: At th’upper End she cracks her Nuts, While at the nether End her Honour. |
(c) (also latter-end) the buttocks, the posterior.
| ‘Pathetic Odes’ Works (1794) III 429: See them, like nine-pins tumbled on the plain! And now they get upon their ends again! | |
| ‘Mounting A Maid’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 29: The radiant moon shone clear and bright, / On her latter-end so lilly white. | |
| [perf. Sam mayo] ‘Far, Far Away’ 🎵 A dog chased our tom cat last night and he bit her end. | |
 | Pikes Peek or Bust 72: She referred to a historic fanny-fall that he took one night at the old La Conga. [...] ‘I fell on my pratt!’ he said. This amused her no end—pun intended. | |
| Shagadelically Speaking 60: heinie, butt; bum; [...] buns; end. |
2. in fig. uses.
(a) a share, usu. of criminal profits or responsibility.
| Truth (Sydney) 2 Sept. 7/4: He’d [i.e. a boxer] want to learn to be thankful for small mercies, such as the loser’s end. | |
| Mirror of Life 18 May 11/2: [H]e induced our friend Jack Gorringe to give the young man from the States [the] small end of the gate—which amounted to a ‘pony’. | |
| Taking Chances 22: She’s got a show for the big end of it. | |
| ‘One-Thirty-Three – Ringside’ in Taking the Count 65: The loser’s end ought to be eight thousand. | |
| Me – Gangster 211: I’m lookin’ ten grand in the eye fer my end, that right? | |
| Night and the City 10: Do you think I’d take the sucker’s end of that racket? | |
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in Four Novels (1983) 94: ‘I’m sure glad Cobbett came through,’ I said [...] ‘I knew he’d work his end all right,’ she said. | |
| Swell-Looking Babe 82: I’ll even take care of the babe’s ten g’s out of my end. | |
| On the Yard (2002) 238: I say, I’m not waiting. I want my end. | |
| Animal Factory 27: The motherfucker didn’t throw us our end. | |
| Wiseguy (2001) 97: I could have taken my end and gone home. | |
| Curvy Lovebox 147: I just want my end out of this. | |
| Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Me and Price sold him a yearling. Price got his end. But I still haven’t got mine’. | |
| Eddie’s World 138: I can handle my end. I can deal with whatever happens. | |
| Observer Crime 27 Apr. 28: End. Share of proceeds from a crime. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 76: Bridget Malone was working off her end of the heroin bust gathering information against her wiseguy boyfriend. |
(b) that proportion of one’s illicit gains that is used to bribe the police.
| Big Con 296: end. 2. A portion of the score taken as a bribe by the law. |
3. in geographical uses.
(a) that area of a football stadium, behind the respective goals, trad. reserved for the hardcore supporters of home and away teams and the scene of most fighting.
| Guardian 2 Aug. 🌐 Astonishingly, given the declining point of this exercise and with endless expensive fixtures to come (getting to Brazil doesn’t come cheap), the United end was crammed full. Clearly the fans wanted to be there for their team’s only Wembley appearance of the season. |
(b) (UK black/teen, also ends, endz) an area of a city.
| ‘My Radio’ 🎵 There ain’t really nothing going on in the ends. | |
| Observer Rev. 14 Aug. 7/2: Endz noun – area, manor, as in ‘What endz you from?’ (where do you live?). | |
| Dirty South 2: The chi chi men who prowl and hang around in those ends. | |
| Guardian 8 Aug. 🌐 25 years ago police killed my grandma in her house in Tottenham and the whole ends rioted. | |
| ‘Bring Me Down (Intro)’ 🎵 The endz is tryna bring me down (down) / Police are tryna bring me down (down). | |
| Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 Gangs and cliques are often territorial, so terms such as endz, bitz, yard (meaning neighborhood), or road and roadboy (someone accepted as local), are especially important. | |
| What They Was 21: A shotter selling crack and heroin around the ends . |
In phrases
used as a quasi-excl. to empahsise that an argument or discussion has reached an end.
| [ | | Carlito’s Way 34: Then they put Vinnie and me on a bus headed for Miami. ‘The man wanted the car?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Man got the car?’ ‘Yeah.’ End of conversation]. |
| Out of Bounds (2017) 34: ‘The Orwell standing stones [...] two giant willies. End of’. | |
| Consolation 269: He recieved one text [...] Came in, collected her things, left. End of. |
(US) head over heels (cf. ass over appetite under ass n.).
| Arizona Sentinel 17 Apr. 4/4: A woman may [...] knock a man end over appetite for making an insulting remark. | |
| Wash. Herald (DC) 7 Nov. 27/7: Johnson fell end over appetite into some kind of gravel. | |
| Ruppenthal Collection n.p.: He went end over appetite when he was thrown from the bicycle [DARE]. | |
| ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly flips him end over appetite. | |
| R.L. Bellem Blind Man's Fluff' in Thrilling Detective: Feb. 🌐 He was just in time to save himself from being grabbed by the collar, yanked end over appetite. |
to have sexual intercourse; thus end-away, an act of intercourse.
| letter 5 Feb. in Leader (2000) 37: I hope you had a nice time in London with your young lady, get your end away you old bugar. | |
| Love & Idleness 222: ‘Did you get your end away?’ Cousins grinned gappily. | |
| Camp 272: Real blokes were in and up ’em, roger, screw, dip your wick, grind, get your end away, poke, shaft,. | |
| Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 80: All I want nar is to get me end away. | |
| ‘Go West Young Man’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Why is it whenever you’re getting your end away, the sky’s blue, the lager’s cool and England are gonna win the World Cup. | |
| G’DAY 16: GAZZA: Shane reckons egod is end in larse night. MACKA: Pig's arse! E was with me an egot what I got. Sweet bugger all! | |
| ‘Prufrock Scoused’ Catching Up with Hist. 23: I don’t think I’d get my end away now anyroad. | |
| (con. 1960s) London Blues 279: I suppose you got your own end away after the filming was over, eh? [Ibid.] 280: Dick Callaway [...] He’s aptly named, I tell you — always getting his dick away. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 223: I am totally gagging for my end-away. | |
| Falls 432: He’s been getting his end away with the daughter. | |
| PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 25: It’s the chance to [...] bif my end away on camera. | |
| Apples (2023) 30: The main thing was getting my end away. | |
| Season of Sid 254: You paid him £20,000 to leave the country, so you could get your end away? |
to have sexual intercourse.
| Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 78: How was it yesterday? Did you get your end in? | |
| Sexus (1969) 44: Aren’t you just a bit sorry that you didn’t get your end in with what’s her name? | |
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 75: Gettin’ yer end in I see, yer dirty old bastard. | |
| All Bull 63: Get your thick end in, PeeGee? | |
| Traveller’s Tool 20: She never let him get his end in again. | |
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 164: usage: ‘She’s great! Can’t wait to get my end in!’. | |
| Sam and the City at blogs.smh.com.au 20 June [blog] Try this instead ‘maybe da whores said “no way dude” before da bruva got his end in, dude.’. | |
| Luck in the Greater West (2008) 87: Abdullah had promised Charlie that next time, next time he’d get his end in. |
(US Und.) to accept bribe money.
| Big Con 309: To take or take his end. To accept bribe money. Applied to anyone who is fixed. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
see under ballgame n.
(orig. US) the very end, the ultimate.
| (con. WW1) Legion of the Damned 185: I was told there was another recourse, a last hope. I made out a demand for a surcease of the sentence. Three days later it came back, refusé. That was the end of the rope. | |
| Bullets For The Bridegroom (1953) 6: The man on the packing cases had come to the end of the road. | |
| Big Smoke 30: When they came to the end of the road, when they realized there was nothing for them in life but to quit the ring and take up a job. | |
| Carlito’s Way 110: Rocco slumped on a stool. [...] He was at the end of the line. | |
| Brown’s Requiem 61: Stan said that this was the end of the line, that no way would Fat Dog camp out on the back nine. | |
| Powder 163: Sorry, Sleeper! End of the line, darlings!! Endof, over and out! | |
| Secret Hours 169: [H]is appearance [...] was of a man nearing the end of his rope, and not an especially reliable rope at that. |
(US) to suffer, to be victimized, to be placed in an invidious position.
| St Paul Daily Globe (MN) 10 May 3/5: [headline] Chicago Strikers Get the Hard End of a Fight with the Police. | |
| Pullman Herald 21 July 1/2: He has got, by far, the hard end of the row. | |
| Mower City Transcript (Lansing, MN) 20 Jan. 1/1: Russia has got the hard end in the trouble with Japan. | |
| L.A. Herald 8 June 4/5: They would get all the hard end of the industrial army work. | |
| Greater Glory 109: Girls and women get the hard end of marriage the same as everything else in life. It means work, work, work, marriage does. | |
| (con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 91: These amateurs get the hard end of the deal every time. |
(US) to do badly, to be treated unfairly.
| Salt Lake Herald 9 Dec. 4/2: Lawson [...] got ‘the sticky end of the stick,’ and has been ‘put wise’ for his future dealings with racing promoters. | |
| Bulldog Drummond 244: The men with the business brain, who think they’re getting the sticky end of it. | |
| Worcester Jrnl 1 June 5/5: The Chairman feared they were going to get the sticky end of the wedge. | |
| Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 2 Oct. 5/2: We certainly have had the sticky end of it at Lynton. |
to ruin a situation.
| (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 138: Knock The End Off, To: To spoil anything. |
1. in betting, the favourite.
| Salt Lake Herald 14 Aug. 8/3: Pools were sold on ‘Midnight’ at 200 and ‘Ford’ 90, sure-thing men investing liberally at the long end. | |
| Game 🌐 ‘What does ten to six mean?’ Genevieve asked, [...] ‘That I’m the long end, the favorite,’ he answered. ‘That a man bets ten dollars at the ring side that I win against six dollars another man is betting that I lose.’. | |
| ‘No Business’ in Taking the Count 153: For a big long end I can be as game as anybody. |
2. (US) the majority, the bulk.
| in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 116: Leave the long end of the purse for me at Phil. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 16 Sept. 31/2: Gibson [...] went in where the tally sheets were being prepared and saw to it that McCarty got ‘the long end of the vote’. | |
| Wkly Times-Record (Valley City, ND) 23 Feb. 5/2: The final whistle blew with the locals at the long end of a 23 to 12 score. | |
| You Can’t Win (2000) 255: In a couple of night’s play he got the long end of the money in the game. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
(US) to act deceitfully, to go behind somone’s back.
| National Jrnl 3:3 171: ‘We could use foreign-flag ships,’ he said. This would permit industry to ‘pull an end run’ on the Jones Act. | |
| Negotiation 45: Children who pull an end run to Dad when the negotiation with Mom develops into a quarrel. | |
| Ultimate Rewards 189: Many [companies] are very hierarchical. But friendships and unofficial networks of friendships allow people to pull an end run around the hierarchy. | |
| Charlie Opera 79: Our man in Vegas didn’t know about it [...] Which means somebody pulled an end run. |