winter, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

winter adj.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

winter bush (n.) [bush n.¹ (2a)]

(US black) a pronounced growth of a woman’s pubic hair; shaved in the summer it is allowed to grow in the winter.

2000

Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 winter bush Definition: when a women lets her pubic hair grow-in during the non-bikini season Example: I was out with this bitch last night and when she took off her drawls she had winter bush.

winter cricket (n.) [the ‘sewing’ motions of the insect’s legs]

a tailor.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

winter Friday (n.)

(Irish) a chilly looking, impoverished individual.

1997

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winter-hedge (n.) [the way a full clothes-horse ‘hedges off’ a portion of the room; summer washing is dried out of doors]

a clothes-horse.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

winter palace (n.) [impoverished criminals or tramps deliberately have themselves jailed during the cold winter months]

a prison.

1902

H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).

winter rat (n.)

(US) an old car, driven in bad weather.

1999

J. MacKillop ‘How to Speak Like a Syracusan’ in Syracuse New Times 4 Aug. 🌐 Perhaps the most enduring and unique local coinage is ‘winter rat,’ designating a wreck of a car driven only in bad weather.

winter’s fire (n.) [it is hot adj. (6a)]

a venereal disease .

1741

Secret Hist. of Betty Ireland (9 edn) 34: She met with the Justice to whom she had given a Winter’s Fire; he accosted her in a very rough Manner, exposing her as a Bawd and Whore.

winter tread (n.) [i.e. a winter tread tyre, thus play on tread v.]

(Aus.) a condom, a contraceptive sheath.

1999

G. Seal Lingo 126: In Lingo, condoms are [...] winter tread; rubbers.

winter wear (n.)

see turtleneck (sweater) n.