Green’s Dictionary of Slang

thick adj.

1. in senses of SE thick-headed.

(a) stupid, dull, foolish; often as thick as... adj. (1) .

T. Chaloner (trans.) Erasmus Praise of Folie (1509) 40: On the other syde, who woulde not sooner preferre any one chosen euin amonges the thickest of the people? who beying a foole, could aptly either gouerne, or obey fooles, please the myndes of suche as be lyke vnto him, whiche is the moste parte.
[UK]Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: I think he feeds her with porridge, [...] she could never have such a thick brain else.
J. Hayward Answer to Dolman iv M: I omit your thicke error in putting no difference betweene a magistrate and a king .
[UK]Fletcher Spanish Curate V i: A thick ram-headed Knave.
W. Penn Liberty of Conscience v n.p.: What if you think our reasons thick, and our ground of separation.
[UK]Proceedings Old Bailey 30 May 62/2: He said, d – n the D – of C – , his h – was too thick to take it in.
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 151: Would Jove to all the rest assign / Noddles but half as thick as thine.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘More Money’ Works (1794) III 137: Thick as may be the head of poor John Bull, The beast hath got some brains within his skull.
[UK]Sporting Mag. Apr. XVI 44/1: ‘Here comes paper-skull.’ – ‘Who do you call paper-skull? [...] my head is as thick as any of yours!’.
[UK]B.M. Carew Gypsey of the Glen I iii: Run your thick heads into halters.
[UK]Navy at Home II 138: A professed passer of midshipmen’s, who undertook [...] to knock a given quantity of navigation into the skulls of these grown up gentlemen, let them be ever so thick.
[UK] ‘Anecdotes of British Lawyers’ Town Talk 8 Aug. 203: No more than one idea could ever stay in his thick head at a time.
[UK]Mansfield School-Life at Winchester College (1870) 238: Thick – Stupid.
[UK]S.O. Addy Sheffield Gloss. 255: Thick, dull stupid.
[UK] ‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ Punch 24 Sept. 133/2: He seemed jest a bit thick.
[UK]Gem 16 Mar. 2: Your grey matter, meaning your thick head!
[US]Van Loan ‘Excess Baggage’ Score by Innings (2004) 397: I must have been pretty thick, because I didn’t tumble at first.
[US]Dos Passos Three Soldiers 19: Run around the room a little . . . No, not that way. Just a little so I can test yer heart . . . God, these rookies are thick.
[US]W.N. Burns One-Way Ride 62: Polack Joe, ‘a little thick in the head,’ as Police Captain John Stege described him.
[Ire]P. Kavanagh Tarry Flynn (1965) 147: ‘He’s a very thick man,’ said Tarry. ‘He’s a hasty man, ‘ said Petey, ‘but I wouldn’t say he’s a thick man.’.
[Aus]D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse and other Tales 62: There must be a safe way if I’m not too thick in the nut.
[UK]E. Bond Saved Scene vii: He goes we’re ’ere, the thick bastard, an’ lets ’em in.
C. Sellers Where Have All the Soldiers Gone 25: ‘He was kinda thick. Out here you can’t be too dumb’.
[UK]P. Theroux Family Arsenal 31: You’re really thick – you shouldn’t have told me that.
[UK]T. Lewis GBH 184: ‘You fucking thick copper’.
[US]J. Flaherty Tin Wife 65: Don’t piss an unlimited career away by acting like a thick Mick.
[UK]K. Lette Llama Parlour 118: If you need something large and thick in your life, why doncha just go to bed with, I dunno, a phone book.
[UK](con. 1944) C. Logue Prince Charming 54: You’re thicker than you sound, lad.
[UK]H. Mantel Beyond Black 180: She was a bit thick, wasn’t she? [...] She didn’t get any exams in school.
[US](con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 309: You’re thick [...] Stubborn like his father.
[US]T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] ‘Are you fucking thick?’.
[Scot]A. Parks Bloody January 55: Cooper’s boys [...] Bit too flash and a bit too thick.
[Ire]L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 254: I’m trying to play thick then, like, Wha’? and he goes, ‘Rocky, don’t be acting the bollocks’.
[US]C. Stella Joey Piss Pot 7: ‘Oh, God, you’re thick’.

(b) dull-headed, ‘dopey’.

[US]M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 53: One night I felt a little thick, and went to the buttery for the gin bottle!

(c) drunken.

[UK]Kipling ‘Black Jack’ Soldiers Three (1907) 106: I made feign to be far gone in dhrink an’ [...] I went away, walkin’ thick an’ heavy.
[UK]‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Consistent Consort’ Sporting Times 13 June 1/3: When he’s ‘squiffy,’ my word! he’s sufficiently thick, / But when sober he’s quite as opaque.
[UK]‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 196: Looks like a boozing den after a thick night.
[NZ]N.Z. Truth 29 Apr. 1/8: They drink till they’re thick in the head.
[UK]T. Croft Cloven Hoof 153: You look a bit under the weather; have a thick night?

2. in senses of lit. or fig. closeness.

(a) close, intimate; often as thick as... adj. (2)

[UK]Cibber Refusal 42: Since our Men of Quality are got so thick into Change-Alley, who knows but in time a great Man’s Word may go as far as a Tradesman’s?
[UK] in J. Nichols Literary Anecd. 18th C. (1812) II 70: We begin now, though contrary to my expectation, and without my seeking, to be pretty thick; and I thank God who reconciles me to my adversaries .
[UK]H. Cowley Belle’s Stratagem III ii: Sally is very thick with Mr. Gibson, Sir George’s gentleman.
[UK]W. Carr Dialect of Craven.
[UK]Dickens Oliver Twist (1966) 388: Yer a very nice man, and I’m very fond of yer; but we ain’t quite so thick together, as all that comes to.
[US]J.H. Ingraham Pierce Fenning 41: You and the Britisher seem to be pretty thick!
[UK]G.J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand (1890) 23: Major O’Toole [...] warned me repeatedly that I was ‘much too thick with Miss Jones.’.
[US]Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 22 Nov. n.p.: A negro woman; she is very thick with her.
[US]‘Artemus Ward’ Artemus Ward, His Book 69: Our parents (Betsy’s and mine) slept reglarly every Sunday in the same meetin house, and the nabers used to obsarve, ‘How thick the Wards and Peasleys air!’.
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict.
[UK]Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 370: That fellow Tregear, who is so thick with Silverbridge.
[UK] ‘In the Guards!’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 75: With duchesses I’m ’and in glove, with countesses I’m thick.
[Aus]Coburg Leader (Vic.) 17 Aug. 1/5: Union Jack and Footscray Harry are not very thick now.
[UK]‘Ramrod’ Family Connections 11: Why do you think they are so thick with thepevuliar people to be met with in your house at time.
[US]W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 212: Fincher’s his best friend [...] an’ they are mighty thick.
[Aus]J. Furphy Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. xxx: 🌐 Presently I got thick with Nora again.
[Aus]‘G.B. Lancaster’ Jim of the Ranges 23: He’s not the sort for you to get thick with.
[Ire]Joyce ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ Dubliners (1956) 124: Fanning and himself seem to me very thick. They’re often in Kavanagh’s together.
[US]Black Mask Aug. III 46: We had been through training camp together [...] and were pretty thick, being from the same city.
[US]E. Anderson Hungry Men 171: He was too thick with the niggers, though. He treated them like they was white.
[UK]A. Christie Sparkling Cyanide (1955) 104: They were pretty thick at the office and there’s an idea there that she was keen on him.
[UK]J. Betjeman ‘Hunter Trials’ in Coll. Poems (1959) 237: Miss Blewitt says Monica threw it, / But Monica says it was Joan, / And Joan’s very thick with Miss Blewitt, / So Monica’s sulking alone.
[US]D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 131: Rudi Tambunga is very thick with the owners of the dog-ass Jets, the Mastrioni brothers.
[NZ]H. Beaton Outside In I i: I saw you thick with that kid.
[US]J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 273: They were thick, those two!
[Aus]S. Maloney Sucked In 41: ‘They were pretty thick, were they?’ ‘Chalk and cheese [...] Mortal enemies’.
[US]D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 181: [T]hey’re thick, tight together, in the way that people who trust each with their lives in deep water are.

(b) (US campus) emotionally involved, romantically attached.

[US]W.R. Burnett Iron Man 50: I didn’t know you managers liked to have your boys thick with women.
[Aus]‘Banjo’ Paterson Shearer’s Colt 26: Maggie’s the girl who works there, and she and I used to be pretty thick.
[US]D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Feb. 7/1: Off-beat throbbings maintain that Charley (Savoy) Buchanan’s secretary and the Harlem club operator are mightee theeck!
[US]E. Stephens Blow Negative! 245: I thought you two were pretty thick.
[US]G. Underwood ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 68: That couple is really thick.

3. unacceptable due to its excess, too much to handle; usu. in phr. a bit thick.

[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Jul. 14/4: Lord Shaftsbury said of the teachers of the early Ragged Schools that they were ‘men and woman [...] who […] devoted themselves to the work in a real spirit of martyrdom which they would not find in all the history of Popish religion.’ This is rather ‘too thick.’.
[UK]Birmingham Dly Post 31 Mar. 3/4: [H]e unravelled such a ‘yarn’ that even the good man [...] deemed it rather ‘thick’.
[UK]C. Rook Hooligan Nights 14: Giving mugs and other barmy sots the push [...] when their swank got a bit too thick.
[UK]A. Binstead Mop Fair 201: Strike me up a plum tree, this is too, too thick!
[UK]J. Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 126: ‘O Lord,’ said the young man. ‘This is a bit too thick.’.
[US]‘Ellery Queen’ Roman Hat Mystery 133: Really, now, old chap, that’s a bit thick.
[Scot]Hotspur 11 Jan. 47: It’s a bit thick that we’ve already lost more of our regular team through mumps than the other Houses.
[UK]C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 100: It was a bit thick – the line Toppy was taking with Ted.
[Aus]H. Drake-Brockman ‘The North-west Ladies’ West Coast Stories 160: It is a bit thick to swallow, isn’t it?
[UK]Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 82: A bit thick.
[US]K. Cook Wake in Fright [ebook] ‘I don’t pay for any of the beer I drink.’ Grant didn’t quite know how to react, so he just said: ‘Don’t you?’ ‘I could get yours free too, but it’d be making it a bit thick, wouldn’t it’.
[UK]Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 94: ‘This is a bit thick, what,’ I said.
[Ire]R. Doyle Van (1998) 354: I’m to do the sink an’ the washin’ machine but I’m not goin’ to. It’s thick.
[UK](con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 280: But doing it with a couple of niggers . . . that’s a bit thick, isn’t it?

4. intense; dedicated.

[UK]H. Newton ‘Bai Jove’ 🎵 At Billiards, we’re thick’uns, you bet, boys, / Pool and Pyramids too are our pride.
[UK]E.W. Rogers [perf. Vesta Tilley] My Friend the Major 🎵 Very thick at Baccarat.
[UK]C. Rook Hooligan Nights 43: Not wivout giving ’em somefink thick in the way of slanging.
[UK]Marvel 12 Nov. 7: Nibbley’s a thick ’un – a dead wrong ’un, Nibbley is.
[UK]E. Pugh Cockney At Home 68: I can’t quite call to mind what ’appened arter that – not clearly, I mean. It got so thick. And I mixed it crool.
[US]S.L. Hills Tragic Magic 143: The tension in prison is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

5. of an accent, very strong.

[US](con. 1875) F.T. Bullen Cruise of the ‘Cachalot’ 329: A man—short, tubby, with [...] a brogue thick as pea-soup.
[UK]L. Thomas Woodfill of the Regulars 15: My mother’s folks were Germans, and talked with an accent so darn thick sometimes we couldn’t tell what it was all about.
[Aus](con. 1940s) T.A.G. Hungerford Sowers of the Wind 120: ‘What’s them bastards allowed in here for, anyway?’ [...] It was the voice of an American, thick with drink and hatred.
[US]L.K. Truscott IV Dress Gray (1979) 298: He’s got an accent so fuckin’ thick.
[Ire](con. 1920s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 61: He hated Dublin kids, who jeered him behind his back, imitating his country accent, thick as pig’s muck.

6. (US black) in senses of quantity or quality.

(a) of prices, high.

[UK]Mirror of Life 14 Sept. 11/1: Arthur Valentine, on his arrival in New York, cut it very fat, and stopped at a swell hotel [...] where the prices are exceedingly thick.

(b) (US) substantial in number.

[US]Central Record (Lancaster, KY) 16 Aug. 1/4: ‘Dope’ Fiends Thick. Itis said that fifty per cent of the negros on Battle Row are addicted to the use of cocaine.
[US]Sun (NY) 27 July 40/1: They were thick as quick lunches all along the side streets.
[US]Boogie Down Productions ‘My Philosophy’ 🎵 My posse from the Bronx is thick / and we’re real live.
[US]De La Soul ‘African Connection’ 🎵 More brothers come about, try to scheme slick / But the Native Tongue's thick / Lick ’em real good.

(c) extremely drunken.

[UK] ‘We Haven’t Got a Hope’ in C.H. Ward-Jackson Airman’s Song Book (1945) 59: I’d had a thick night and a very sore head.

(d) (UK/US black) of a woman, physically attractive.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 10: thick – having a good figure. Said of a female.
[US]UGK ‘Life Is 2009’ 🎵 Keep a bad yella bitch and a thick young brown.
S.R. Mazzarella Girl Wide Web 2.0 61: Black adolescent boys prefer shapely and ‘thick girls’ [...] By emphasizing ‘thickness’ [...] the girls in NevaEvaLand have over turned the White beauty ideal in favour of a more realistic view of body image based on the cultural ideas of beauty valued in Black culture.
Kash Doll ‘Kash Doll Speaks pt 1’ 🎵 Small waist, thick as hell, nigga look at the butt / Got them D’s up top, nigga look at the cup.
[UK]G. Krauze What They Was 38: Twerking contest full of thick chicks in a club.

(e) of a man, having a large penis.

[US]G. Smitherman Black Talk.

(f) (US campus) overweight.

[US]Da Bomb 🌐 29: Thick: Heavy, overweight.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Apr.

(g) used of objects or people, displaying wealth [i.e. a thick roll of cash].

[US]Source Aug. 144: Snoop’s house is so thick, you have to hold your gin and juice above your head so as not to spill it.

In compounds

thickhead/-headed

see separate entries.

thickwit (n.)

see separate entry.

In phrases

thick as… (adj.)

see separate entry.

thick in the clear (adj.)

confused, at a loss for coherence.

[UK] ‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ Punch 24 Sept. 133/2: He seemed jest a bit thick in the clear.
[UK] ‘’Arriet on Labour’ Punch 26 Aug. 88/1: Bit bosky, Sam, thick in the clear, as usual on Saint Monday.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

thick ear (n.) (also thick earhole)

1. in fig. use, a thug, thus adj. pertaining to thuggery, the underworld.

[UK]Mirror of Life 6 Jan. 4: [pic. caption] On His Muscle. / The Thick Ear Racket Don’t Go.
[UK]Yorks. Eve. Post 15 Sept. 3/6: Thick Ear Melodrama. Victor McLagan’s New Film ‘The River Pirate’ [...] It is just ‘thick ear’ melodrama.
[UK]Northern Whig 16 Aug. 3/2: Death of Colonel C. McNeile. The Creator of ‘Bulldog Drummond’. Thick-Ear Drama.
[UK]‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 114: What you got — a few hundred quid? That’s enough to buy a thick-ear like me, I suppose?

2. an ear that has swollen up after a blow; usu. in phr. give someone a thick ear.

[UK]Sporting Times 24 Feb. 1/2: That’s ’ow I got this thick ear!
[UK]Magnet 10 Sept. 2: That sort of talk will get you a thick ear.
[Aus]Aussie (France) 8 Oct. 3/2: ‘Gie me none o’ yer cheek, my lad, or I’ll gie ye a crack!’ / ‘Garn! Harry Lauder, I’ll open a fresh box of thick ears, and pass you one!’.
[UK]Scott [perf. Jay Laurier] ‘And It Was’ 🎵 She said, ‘It’s me husband’ I felt rather blue / And she said, ‘That’s the sign for a thick ear for you’.
[Ire]Joyce Ulysses 546: He doesn’t half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry.
[UK]Essex Newsman 15 Apr. 4/7: ‘What is a thick ear?’ Judge Crawford asked [...] He is informed by counsel that it was a boxing term.
[Scot]Aberdeen Jrnl 19 Sept. 1/4: He would not cast odium on women’s demands, he confessed ‘ might get a thick ear’.
[Ire]B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: I’ll wave you a thick ear.
[UK]F. Norman Bang To Rights 165: If they see anyone hurting [an animal] that person has a good chance of getting a thick earhole.
[UK]D. Behan Teems of Times and Happy Returns 44: But the scar added a terrible ha ha hee, and usually earned Grinner an undeserved thick ear.
[UK]F. Norman Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 83: Most of the barmen that I had any dealings with would give you a thick ear as soon as look at you.
[Ire](con. 1930s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 114: They had an ‘oul fella’ who gave them a thick ear and sometimes a penny.
[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 71: I’ve had my head punched in so many times that I would get a thick ear, if I had one left, just listening to it all.
thick end (n.)

the larger portion.

[UK]Halliwell Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 864/1: thick end. A considerable part [...] ‘The thick-end of a mile.’ Linc.
[UK]Huddersfield Chron. 22 Dec. 4/6: The Thin — And the thick End of the Wedge into the tenant-Right Interest.
[Aus]Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 13 Apr. 6/5: His [...] lady mother has had the thick end of every ‘bundle’ her brave son has won.
[UK]J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 243/2: Thick end of a hundred years (Yorks.). Nearly a century.
Sphere (London) 2 Nov. 10/4: These heroes who are gone to bring light to us that sit in darkneess here at the thick-end of the loud speaker.
[UK]Tatler (London) 25 May 16: It ought not to be necessary [...] to issue any other kind of weather report. We have had the thick end of eighteen months of it.
Scotsman 2 Apr. 6/6: ‘To introduce compulsion of minorities into England [will] prrove to be driving the wedge in thick-end first’.
[Aus]D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 205: All right, Jimmy, we’ve sold you forward. [...] You’ve had the thick end of the stick all along — now it’s our turn.
[UK]P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 165: Fagged out, dead beat, nerves in tatters [...] we always got the thick end of the stick.
[UK]T. Parker Frying-Pan 60: They’ll tell you how many officers have applied for transfers [...] It’s the thick end of ninety since I came.
thick-leg (n.) (also thick-legged one) [his physique]

a navvy.

[UK]Satirist (London) 28 Oct. 346/2: [used insultingly to a woman] I be rich man. l’ve de monish in de Bank, more den 5l. You be de teef, old thick leg (a laugh).
[UK]D.W. Barrett Life and Work among Navvies 43: Navvies themselves speak of one another as ‘muck-shifters,’ or ‘thick-legs.’.
[UK]W. Newton Secrets of Tramp Life Revealed 3: Labourers, navvies, or ‘Thick Legged Ones.’.
[Aus](con. 1850s) Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 161: Pinchers or Thick-legs – who made the first Australian railway in the early Fifties.
thick lip (n.) [var. on thick ear ]

a minor beating, lit. a lip that has swollen up after receiving a blow.

[US]‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 100: He tried to drag Lotta up into the hay-loft and got a thick lip for his efforts.
[UK]N. Barlay Crumple Zone 180: Alv din get no beatin’, just a thick lip.
thicklugged (adj.)

very stupid.

[Ire]Joyce Ulysses 311: The curse of a goodfornothing God light sideways on the bloody thicklugged sons of whores’ get!
thickneck (n.)

a large, thuggish person.

[UK]Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 320: ‘Kid’s right,’ said thick-neck number one.
[US](con. 1900s) S. Lewis Elmer Gantry 49: One of those thick-necks that was born husky and tries to make you think he made himself husky by prayer and fasting.
[US]B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 41: Truck [...] wasn’t satisfied just being a thickneck and had to double as a comedian.
thickskin (n.)

a fool.

[Ire]Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis ded. to Dvnsayne: What thinck you of thee thick skyn, that made this for a fare wel for his mystresse vpon his departure from Abintowne?
thick-skulled (adj.) (also thick-scull, thick-sculled)

stupid, foolish; also as adv.; thus thick-skull/thick-scull n., a fool.

[UK]Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all I i: Now will this thick-scull’d Master of mine tell the whole Story to his Rival.
[UK]T. Shadwell Epsom Wells I i: That men should be such infinite Coxcombs to live scurvily to get a reputation among thick-scull’d Peasants.
[UK]R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 100: I should hammer it into the heads of those thick-skull’d Courtiers.
[UK]Congreve Love for Love IV i: Why, you thick-sculled rascal, I tell you the farce is done.
[UK]J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 13: Mud, a Fool, or Thick-scul Fellow.
[UK]S. Centlivre Artifice Act III: Ha, Thickscull! [...] Why you Thickscull’d Rascal! – You unthinking Dolt!
[UK]T. Walker The Quaker’s Opera III ii: Oh you Thick-skull!
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 21: Then I hope you’ll hang yourself / For being such a thick-skull’d elf.
[US]Yankey in London 160: Dutch scoundrel, French coward, and German thick-scull are familiar in his abuse.
[Scot]Scots Mag. 1 June 5/2: He had the assurance to spit in my face and call me a thick-skulled booby!
[UK]Royal Cornwall Gaz. 19 May 4/4: Some thick-sculled bigots gravely asserted, that it was invented by a Jesuit.
[Ire]Cork Examiner 3 July 1/5: The Orangemen [...] are a set of ‘thick-sculled unpurchaseable fellows’ who defy him in everything.
[UK]Westmorland Gaz. 6 Mar. 7/3: Thank God we shall no longer have the impenetrable, thick-sculled stupidity of Sir Charles Wood to contend with.
[UK]Bradford Obs. 26 Feb. 7/4: The councillor and aldermen may rest assured that they are far too heavy and thick-sculled for the purpose.
[UK]Reynolds’ Newspaper (London) 19 Sept. 4/6: Their resolutions are worthy of reproduction, if only to show what thick-skulled boobies and brainless bores are elected.
[UK]Cornishmen 4 Mar. 4/5: At the Port he had some old birds who are not to be caught by chaff [...] nor yet so ‘thick-skulled,’ as Pat says.
Indianpolis News (IN) 6 Sept. 4/2: Just like cheap white men, there may be ‘thick-skulled nergroes’ claiming so much influence.
[Scot]Dundee Courier 5 May 4/3: The thick-skulled Councillors were not awar of any attack on it before, and some of the denser are not aware of it yet.
[UK]Northants Eve. Teleg. 23 Aug. 4/2: ‘What an imbecile,’ exclaimed the former. ‘It is the folly of this thick-skulled nation,’ agreed the Secretary.
[US]C.E. Mulford Bar-20 Days 43: You dod-blasted, thick-sculled wooden-heads.
[UK]Morn. Post 9 Feb. 4/3: Ours is no common parish, ours is a thick-skulled thinking, and provident committee.
[US]S. Kingsley Dead End Act II: drina, quietly: I ain’t no Red. policeman, thick-skulled: Well you talk like one.
[UK]G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 112: How [...] is our worthy but thick-skulled friend going to settle that burning question for us?
thick ’un (n.)

see separate entry.

In phrases

thick ’n’ thins (n.) [? the pattern which may include stripes of varying widths]

(US black) stylish nylon socks, usu. black or brown.

[US]D. Claerbaut Black Jargon in White America 82: thick ’n thins n. a type of nylon socks, commonly worn and considered stylish by many black men.