Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the penis.

1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 30: When oft, full oft the lusty drum-stick, / Breaking quite through would in her Bum stick.
1832		Satirist (London) 2 Sept. 285/4: The Duchess [...] gave the celebrated drummer of the Cheltenham band, two sovereigns, in token of her admiration of his unrivalled skill on that instrument. Her Grace was particularly taken with the length of his drumstick : which, she observed no doubt was the reason of his being able to give his strokes with such [...] effect!
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
c.1904		A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 25: Harry and Isaac had their drumsticks in his mouth; Katherine got a nose-fuck.
1972		J.B. Keane Letters of Irish Parish Priest 46: ‘Get out of here you tramp,’ she screamed at him, ‘and stop showing off your dirty oul’ drumstick while you’re urinating.’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 188: The ingenuity of the common man [...] applied the name of practicallly every outstanding feature to the male organ — e.g. obelisk, [...] drumstick .

2. in pl., the legs.

1770		Foote Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 61: What d’ye think I would change with Bill Spindle for one of his drumsticks.
1786		F. Pilon He Would be a Soldier III i: It is not every Captain who can beat a march with such a fine pair of drumsticks – I wonder how my legs would look in a new pair of boots.
1838		‘Lay of St. Nicholas’ in Bentley’s Misc. Apr. 495: He help’d his guest to a bit of the breast, / And he sent the drumsticks down to be grill’d.
1842		Flash (NY) 2 Oct. n.p.: Muck’s nostrils dear vases for posies, / Jule’s drumsticks dung beaters sometimes.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1940		S. Longstreet Decade 171: Skirts are longer [...] Imagine that after years of seeing the pink drumsticks, rolled stockings and a good four inches of American womanhood’s thighs.
1944		‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.

3. in pl., the arms.

1826		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 2 July 597/1: He then rushed wildly forward, when Reuben, in the drumstick line, tipped it to January (and no mistake).
1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 190: Jack jerked his drumsticks against Ned’s ‘bonebox,’ with a force that must have loosened every tooth.

4. (US Und.) a cosh.

1859

Matsell Vocabulum.

5. see drumstick under drum n.³

6. (US black) in pl., the well-rounded thighs of an attractive woman.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].