Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Can.) diarrhoea.

1988

Nanaimo Dly News (BC) 18 Nov. 26/4: There I was shivering from stepmother’s breathand sufering from flying axehandles.

see separate entry.

a cart/stall used by a bric-a-brac dealer.

1844		A. Smith Adventures of Mr Ledbury II 291: The light-cart with the covered top, so poetically denominated a ‘flying bedstead,’ licensed to carry no end.
1876		London Standard 1 June 2/1: Vehicles of every type, from the aristocratic four-in-hand to the ‘flying bedstead’ of the coster.
1891		Dover Exp. 19 June 2/2: The light cart with the covered top, so poetically named as flying bedstead, licensed to carry no end.
1902		H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).

a group of beggars who work as a team at funerals.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flying-Camps, Beggers plying in Bodies at Funerals.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

(UK Und.) an owl.

c.1698

B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.

(US Und.) a type of confidence trickster (see cit. 1859).

1859

Matsell Vocabulum 34: flying coves Fellows who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been robbed, that they can give them information that will be the means of recovering their lost goods.

see galloping dominoes under galloping adj.

a ‘pirate’ dustman, who collects garbage before the contracted dustman can arrive.

1819		P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 34: A flying dustman, whose trade had not spoilt the sympathetic use of his sparklers [...] doffed his topper .
1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 263: Costardmongers and flying dustmen were also ‘blowing a cloud’ with their fancy women.
1829		London Standard 16 June 1/6: A horse of the cart of a flying dustman was being driven a a furious rate.
1838		‘Paul Pry’ Oddities of London Life I 46: Two of that once-celebrated fraternity, known as ‘flying dustmen,’ were charged with having emptied a dusthole in Frith-street, without leave or licence of the contractor. The worthies [...] were not unknown in Old Bailey annals, and in the palmy days of dust-prigging, fearlessly encountered the perils of Tothillfields and the treadmill, in pursuit of their unlawful vocation.
1846		London Standard 12 Nov. 4/3: The word ‘Newgate’ struck upon the feelings of the flying dustman. His wife too, who [...] bustled up to him and said, in an under-tone, ‘Here, Harry, I’ve got the blunt. Dub up, you beggar, and cut these here dangerous spot’.
1866		Lincs Chron. 9 Feb. 8/5: Other partook more of the character of the ‘flying dustman,’ [...] occasionally snatching the more valuable deposits, causing thereby much dissatisfaction to the regular collector.
1872		Hastings & St. Leonards Obs. 13 Jan. 3/2: He had known him working as a ‘flying dustman.’ The prisoner was sentenced for nine calendar months.
1887		Tuer & Fagan First Year of a Silken Reign 79: The transportation of the renowned Bob Bonner, first of dust-prigs, added to the great fall in breeze, have caused this consummation; and a ‘flying dustman’ in a short time bids fair to be as great a rarity as a Red Indian.

1. the last express train from London to a provincial town.

1946		M. Barsley Wolf at the Door 85: You took days off and spent them in town, coming back by the late train, known as the ‘Flying Fornicator’, and let your friends guess what you’d been up to.
1949		N. Monsarrat My Brother Denys 91: For shorter [...] London excursions we used the railway, returning by the last available train, the 10.12 from Liverpool Street, which thus earned the dubious nickname of the Flying Fornicator.
1950		M. Marples Univ. Sl. 95: Fornicator (1920+) or Flying Fornicator, The last train from London to Oxford or Cambridge.
1968		C. Higham (con. 1930s) Aus. Writing Today 50: There were a few affluent and dashing undergraduates who made sorties to London, returning by the night train known as the ‘Flying Fornicator’.
1978		D. Ogilvy Blood, Brains & Beer 26: Expeditions to London [...] returning to Oxford on the last train, which was known as the Flying Fornicator.
1999		(ref. to 1930s) The Eagle (St John’s College, Cantab.) 🌐 We were also told an entertaining story about a certain eminent historian, and the late train to London, known rather charmingly in the 1930s as the ‘Flying Fornicator’.
2002		(con. WWII) D.A. Breen Young Men at War Ch. xix: Once in a while, we caught the last train home. This our delightful Wrens had christened, the ‘Flying Fornicator’.

2. (Aus.) the last train from Sydney to Wollongong on Saturday night, primarily patronized by young people.

1979

Sun-Herald (Sydney) 1 July 43: The last train back from Sydney [to Wollongong] on Sundays is packed with young people and known to some as the Flying Fornicator [GAW4].

see separate entry.

turnpike gates.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 34: flying jiggers Turnpike-gates.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 30: Flying Jiggers, turnpike gates.

(Aus.) diarrhoea.

c.1943		S .J. Baker Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 9: flying handicap: Diarrhoea.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 233/1: flying handicap (the cocktails) diarrhoea.

(W.I.) a bent pin or similar sharp object placed on a chair.

1943

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

see jib n.¹ (2)

(UK/US prison) the throwing of a guard or fellow inmate off the balcony of a cell tier.

1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 90: Flying Lessons Throwing a guard or inmate off of a cell-block tier.
1995		J. Cameron Vinnie Got Blown Away 9: Otherwise I might want flying lessons too.

1. a packet of excrement wrapped in paper and flung over a neighbour’s wall.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Flying Pasty. Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour’s wall.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. (US prison) a similar package wrapped in newspaper and tossed out of one’s cell window.

1996

A. Devlin Prison Patter 52/2: flying pasty bag of excrement thrown from cell window (more common before sanitation installed in cells).

see separate entry.

see flying fuck n.

mutual oral-genital stimulation.

1999–2003

Movie Films Fest ‘Chow Down’ Rev. on Excalibur Films 🌐 After a bit of the blow, Tedeschi flips her up into a flying 69 and starts with some good double digit finger fucking.