log, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

log n.

[visual or fig. uses of SE log]

1. a stupid person.

1836		Comic Almanack May 54: How he did foam and rage, [...] And call the potboy hog, and dog, and log.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxvi 4/1: log: Dill.
1968		J. Alard He who Shoots Last 216: Y’ain’t stuck up no iron tanks before. Neither has ya big log of a mate.
1980		(ref. to 1960s) B. Hornadge Aus. Slanguage (1989) 171: He publically expressed the view that all foreigners [...] were wogs, dogs, bogs or logs.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 693: since early 1930s.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 110: They both have a natural talent to inspire irritation in plums and logs world-wide.

2. the chin.

c.1905

J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xiv: 🌐 He gits home on the butt o’ the log this time. I drops agen, an’ rolls under the (adj.) billiard table.

3. (US drugs, also log stick) an opium pipe.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1937		B. Dai Opium Addiction in Chicago.
1938		D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 105/2: log. An opium pipe.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 312: log. An opium pipe.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore 103: Log stick – The pipe of an opium smoker.

4. a piece of excrement.

2005		Roger’s Profanisaurus Rex 184/1: log n. Bum cigar, brown trout. [...] log fire n. The pain experienced in the back body the morning after eating a particularly spicy Ruby Murray.
2007		T. Dorsey Hurricane Punch 221: The big inside secret is how many turds they get in the mail [...] real logs.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 39: First thing every morning a drop a log.
2016		A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 10: I knew it was bad. the logs were about to spill over the toilet seat.

5. (Aus.) a large person.

1953

T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 113: Oh, one of the blokes in the kitchen got the sack. A big log valled Vodavitch.

6. (US) a bar counter [the wood from which it is constructed].

1969

‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 78: His delicate pinkie scooted the saw buck back to me across the log.

7. (US) the penis.

1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 76: Yeh, she’s a widow and from the way she trembles when you get near her nobody’s sunk a log there in recent months, so I’m going to give her one. [Ibid.] 176: After the number of times I sunk the log last night she’d never believe I was a brownie.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 217: usage: ‘You going to show her your log tonight?’.

8. (US drugs) a marijuana cigarette.

1977		S.N. Pradhan Drug Abuse.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 14: Log — Marijuana cigarette; PCP.

9. (US drugs) phencyclidine [? sense 2].

2001

ONDCP Street Terms 14: Log — [...] PCP.

10. an erection.

2004

Nasir Jones ‘Remember the Times’ 🎵 Was a horny dog, mornings waking up with a log.

In compounds

log stick (n.)

see sense 3 above.

rotten logging (n.)

(Can. campus) hugging and kissing.

1938

Dly Atheneum in McGill Dly 19 Dec. 4: Hugging and kissing [...] Lollygagging, necking, pitching honey, smooching, tonsil swabbing, pawing, muzzling, flinging woo and rotten logging are other names applied to the same activity.

In phrases

do a log (v.)

to defecate.

2021

Twitter 8 Dec. 🌐 Neil Kinnock did a log in my primary school friend's downstairs loo in Edinburgh in 1984 when he was attending dinner there.

flog the log (v.) (also slog the log)

to masturbate.

1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 103: Back with the guys, who had probably been wacking (jacking) off, beating the meat, flogging the log.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 145: usage: ‘Bill has locked his door. Probably going to flog the log’.
1995–2002		‘The World’s Largest Collection of Male Masturbation Synonyms’ at Worldwidewank.com 🌐 Flogging your log.
1997–99		AllAboutSex.org 🌐 ‘Words for Masturbation’ [...] 298. Slog the log.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.

go up a (hollow) log (v.) [the activity of a snake or lizard]

(Aus.) to hide.

1916		Richmond River Herald (NSW) 27 Oct. 8/1: Every budding candidate for parliamntary honors [...] has either twisted right round or gone up a hollow log till the voting is over.
1925		Richmond River Exp. (NSW) 23 Mar. 4/1: Meanwhile the calamity howlers, who contended the council was [...] bound to make a loss and reduce the ratepayers to bankruptcy, have gone up a hollow log.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.

log of wood (n.)

(Aus.) a dull, stupid person; thus log of ebony, a stupid black person.

1837		‘Plunder Creek’ in Bentley’s Misc. Feb. 128: You ’tarnal lazy log of ebony.
1939		K. Tennant Foveaux 309: You don’t mean to tell me you take any notice of a blasted log of wood like him?
1968		J. Alard He who Shoots Last 53: Yer a nice bloody log of wood Wrecker.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 129: log of wood Stupid or lazy person. ANZ.

sink the log (v.)

see under sink v.

throw the log (v.)

(N.Z. prison) to shut the door.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 189/1: throw the log v. to shut the door.