Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US, also glory mound, glory pelt, glory pit) the vagina.

c.1930		quoted by G. Legman in introduction in Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues (rev. edn 1966) lxxi: One cried Hosanna up her glory-hole.
1970		J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV:1/2 57: glory hole n [...] Used exclusively by males in the company of other males, also refers to the vagina.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 10: Spearing Suzette between the warm and welcome thighs, right into the glory hole.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 40: I pawed away the bra, drew down the silk panties until she stepped out of them the velvety pucker of Glory Mound brushing my cheek.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 11: Suzette let out a decisive whimper and fell back, stretched across the plush rug, her superb buttocks still quivering, her glory pelt a-gleam.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 132: I had to keep on going up and down to meet each new great fresh demand of that hungry glory pit.
2002		A. Mariello ‘Dirty Dictionaries’ on Weekly Dig 🌐 He tried to pork every glory hole in a five-mile radius, but nobody’s joy-buzzer was having it.

2. (gay) a hole cut in the side of a public toilet cubicle; used to pass money or for one man to push his penis through while another, anonymous, man fellates him.

1949		‘Swasarnt Nerf’ et al. Gay Girl’s Guide 10: glory-hole: Phallic size hole in partition between toilet booths. Sometimes used also for a mere peep-hole.
1949		‘Swasarnt Nerf’ Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson 17: What is believed to be the only surviving glory-hole, phallic size (also known as suck-hole) [...] is found at Loew’s Avenue B.
1964		Lavender Lex. n.p.: glory hole: – An opening, usually in the partition between toilets, thru which sodomy or oral copulation is performed. Almost always this is with the knowledge or connivance of the owners of the business. A place that has a glory hole can always count on business up front from homosexuals who have an eye on the toilet.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 233: The manager [...] is trying to discourage the fruits who like to meet here and poke their cocks through glory holes and all that.
1989		Kirk & Madsen After The Ball 311: I told him it is very bad manners to come in, stuff the [glory] hole [with toilet paper] and read a newspaper.
1991		B. McCarthy Vice Cop 97: ‘All the bathrooms had glory holes. You could stick your dick through the wall and another guy on the other side would blow you’.
2005		E. White My Lives 164: A dirty old man squatting beside a glory hole and sticking my grubby fingers through it to beckon any hard cocks on the loose.
2010		W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 64: [G]loryhole (a hole drilled through partitions dividing cubicles that allowed notepaper or money to be passed back and forwards during initial negotiations).
2011		Salon.com 20 Nov. 🌐 The defining feature, however, is the holes between the booths, called glory holes. They aren’t jury-rigged glory holes [...] They are professional, finished pieces of custom carpentry.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 293/1: glory hole a hole between two stalls in a public toilet - usually big enough to poke things through.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 39: ‘The Semen Demon. Sucks dick at the glory hole at the [...] men’s room’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 105: [H]arbingers of fear lurking in the bushes and drilling glory-holes in cubicle walls.