dagger, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dagger n.¹

the penis.

[1533		J. Haywood A Mery Play n.p.: An homycyde thou art I know well inoughe / For my selfe knew where thou sloughe / A wenche with thy dagger in a couche].
a.1627		Middleton & Rowley Old Law (1656) III i: cook.: I must a wooing. but.: Ile buy me a new dagger, and overtake you. bay.: So we must all, for he that goes a wooing to a Widdow without a Weapon will never get her.
c.1650		Le Strange Merry Passages and Jeasts No. 560 150: For sure the Dagger’s in the Sheath, when the Children are gotten.
1680		M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 97: For notwithstanding all your swaggar, / To me all’s standing but your Daggar.
1732-1820		Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 21: Dinner Sentiments [...] The Female Cave; the open space for Cupid’s Rudder; the fine Sheath for the bold Dagger.
1790		Banquet of Wit 102: Sentiments and Toasts [...] Adam’s dagger.
1836		‘Do As Father & Mother Do’ Cockchafer 44: Says Dick, ‘it’s true, a dagger long, / I have got, my sweet delight.
c.1840		‘Cat’ [broadsheet ballad] He push’d in his dagger so stiff and so stout.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		‘Voluptuous Night’ in Cabinet of Venus 47: How delicious to feel their soft compressive rubbing against my dagger.
c.1900		A. Cairene Sixfold Sensuality 8: He immediately pushed his dagger into her sheath.
c.1935		‘Kansas City Kitty’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 54: He took my hand and put it on the front of his pants and I felt that hard dagger.
1971		Frank Zappa ‘Bwana Dik’ 🎵 My dick is a dagger / I’ll force it to fit.
1993		J. Mowry Six Out Seven (1994) 135: Slowly, cautiously, he took hold of himself with one hand, far back from the tip of his unsheathed dagger.

In phrases

dip the dagger (v.)

of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

1963–74

B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 75: Old Silvo is too busy dipping the dagger to hear me.

throw one’s dagger (v.)

(US campus) to have sexual intercourse.

1989

P. Munro Sl. U. 192: Did you throw your dagger last night?

dagger n.1

In phrases

dagger n.¹