punch n.
(orig. US campus) a promiscuous woman.
![]() | AS XXXVIII:3 173: A female who is dated because of her lax sexual habits: punch. | ‘Kansas University Sl.: A New Generation’ in|
![]() | One to Count Cadence (1987) 141: The local punches, gang-bang Southern belles. | |
![]() | AS L:1/2 64: punch 1: n Promiscuous female, one who freely engages in sexual intercourse. | ‘Razorback Sl.’ in|
![]() | (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 5: This brother in the movie, he was just wailing on this punch. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus.) A Volkswagen ‘beetle automobile’.
![]() | Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] We climbed into our rafts like clowns into a punch buggy. |
In phrases
(Aus.) orig boxing, to reach one’s limit, to exhaust oneself.
![]() | Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 1 Feb. 6/1: Even his [...] pathetic lament ‘that he had lost his punch’ did-not shake our opinion that there had been a swindle somewhere. | |
![]() | Truth (Brisbane) 13 Sept. 3/3: We can only imagine that, like a not less famous warrior of recent days, [General] Kuropatkin has ‘lost his punch’. | |
![]() | Bathurst Times (NSW) 5 Nov. 6/4: ‘Has Not Lost His Punch’. Mr. Peter Bowliar in reply to Mr. Hogue’s assertion that Pete had lost his punch, said:— Mr. Hogue may think I have lost what he is pleased to call my punch, but I have not lost my seat. | |
![]() | Methodist (Sydney) 10 Oct. 4/1: I have a friend who, when he wants to describe any man who seems to have lost his interest in any good work [...] says: ‘That fellow has lost his punch’. | |
![]() | Richmond River Exp. (NSW) 9 Mar. 4/3: But like the cock who gamely crows / On his own muck heap — that's all past, / The pommy’s lost his punch at last! | |
![]() | Brisbane Courier 12 Apr. 6/7: ‘Lost His Punch’ [...] Yesterday, on at least one tramcar, there was a conductor who had lost his punch, or, rather, whose punch had lost its penetrating power. | |
![]() | Referee (Sydney) 22 Dec. 5/4: Hasn’t Lost His Punch. One-time Victorian Jockey, Herbert Charles, is having a great run of success on Western Australian courses. | |
![]() | Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 44: LOSE ONE’S DASH: To weaken, no longer show energy in a task or undertaking. Also, ‘lose one’s punch’. | |
![]() | Burrowa News (NSW) 23 July 8/4: Cr. Hanley said he was now convinced that Mgr. Cahill had ‘lost his punch’. | |
![]() | Sun (Sydney) 5 July 30/3: Destroyer soon lost his punch. [...] he couldn't sustain his early success and quickly got off the beam. |
(Aus.) to make a killing in the goldfields, stock market etc; thus punch, a killing, a coup.
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 12 May 24/2: He made his big Broken Hill ‘punch’, and was able to become an owner. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 21 July 10/2: Rolls was one of the few scions of the nobility to make a punch in a business sense. [...] Rolls was [...] the commercial brain of the Rolls-Royce Co. |
cunnilingus.
![]() | AS XLII:4 229: punch-in-the-mouth, n. Cunnilingus. | ‘Terms Used in a Men’s Dormitory’ in