Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a generic name for an anonymous member of the public.

1764		Gentleman’s Mag. Apr. 228/2: This is a doctrine much inculcated by somebody ; bus, maugre his most earnest endeavours, it has not yet taken sufficient root in this country; nor do I suppose, that you, Mr. Anybody, are desirous that it ever should.
1777		letter in A. Brook Experiments & Remarks on Electricity (1789) 178: Would Dr. Anybody, or Mr. Anybody, at London, or any where, have supposed that the Smeatonian pump would do no more than any other good pump.
1932		J.T. Farrell Young Manhood [ebook] STUDS LONIGAN was an iron man, and when anybody laughed at the iron man, well, the iron man would knock the laugh off the face of Mr. Anybody.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 7: We got a big kick out of joyriding in someone else’s car. We could take Mr. Anybody’s car any time we had a mind to.
1961		H. Miller Cosmological Eye 225: Mr. Anybody or Everybody in France is quite another species from Mr. Nobody in America or England.

see arnold n.

(N.Z. prison) a (major) drug dealer.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/2: Mr Asia n. an inmate in possession of a steady supply of drugs for sale to other inmates, the drug-dealer in the wing.

see Astorbilt n.

the average member of the public.

1914		Wash. Post 11 Nov. Miscellany 3/4: It behooves Mr. Averageman to examine well into his pockets if he should hear such expressions as ‘let him through,’ ‘hold him back’ or ‘right breech.’.
1918		Rotarian Apr. 137: CURIOUS was taking a meditative walk, met Mr. Average and askt quickly: ‘What is air?’ ‘What is air?’ Mr. Average repeated in surprise. ‘Air! Why air is — er— is air’.
1975		‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 66: He was just little Mr Average, one of the faceless working herberts.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 45: The achiever is [...] obliged to be jostled by Mr Average, Mrs Normal, Ms Ordinary.
1990		Amer. Motorcyclist Dec. 23: Mr. Average and his wife see you and your motorcycle on the road.
1991		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper From The Inside 95: Mr and Mrs average Aussie doesn’t really believe it is all happening here.
2009		T.A. Mason Love Won’t Let Me Be Silent 114: Mr. Average does not always have a six-pack or always have 12 inches of swipe. He does not always have that chiseled body that you have fantasized about all your life.

(US Und.) a potential victim, a confidence man’s dupe.

1902		Wash. Times (DC) 14 Sept. 10/4: Mr Bates — A mark.
1904		Salt Lake Herald (UT) 19 Oct. 5/1: Mr Bates’ leather sticks out of his inside kick and Jimmy thinks it’s a shame. He cops and lams a couple of blocks.
1909		F.H. Tillotson How I Became a Detective 93: Mr. Bates – A mark.
1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 409: Johnny Bates. Victim – sucker, sap, dupe, gull, come-on, greenhorn.
1940		D. Maurer Big Con 189: When I bump into Mr. Bates I can hold my own with him on most any subject. [Ibid.] 210: I always avoid a hare-lipped Bates.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 134: johnnie bates A greenhorn; a sucker; a sap; a victim; a dope.

(orig. US) an important, influential person, esp. a ‘criminal mastermind’; also attrib.

1938		W. Winchell On Broadway 15 Mar. [synd. col.] President Roosevelt was addressing that group’s representatives . . . . Mr. Big said in part [etc.].
1945		G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 70: If I can do anything [...] to convince our Mister Bigs to think the right way [...] then the risks on the way simply do not count.
1959		E. De Roo Go, Man, Go! 30: Don’t gimme that Mr. Big stuff. I take enough of it at home.
1962		‘Ed Lacy’ Freeloaders 183: There is a Mr. Big. Sometimes I wish the sonofabitch would stop getting Mr. Bigger.
1966		J. Holledge Great Aust. Gamble 129: [H]e had spent most of his share when he returned to England to become ‘Mister Big’ behind a sensational English greyhound doping scandal .
1969		N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 41: From then on he was a natural Mister Big.
1976		‘Hergé’ Tintin and the Picaros 41: And just where do you think you’ve been Mr Big?
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 52: I became the recognised and even slightly feared Mr Big of the Melton hall underworld.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 102: Her father was a Pakistani shopkeeper and a Mr. Big of the Gorbals.
1999		Observer 18 July 33: For once, the Mistah Bigs were behind bars.
2008		Camden New Journal (London) 13 Mar. 2: A gang of five charged with running a crack cocaine ring under a shadowy ‘Mr Big’.
2015		Guardian Online 13 Oct. 🌐 The gangland murder of Paul Massey, known as Salford’s Mr Big.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 98: ‘[T]hey wanted to leave it [i.e. a drug syndicate] operating while they chased down the Mr Bigs’.

(US tramp) a gullible person.

1930

‘Dean Stiff’ Milk and Honey Route 200: Block, Mr. — The original john Dubb. The man who believes that the police mean well and that sharks are good fellows.

(drugs) hydromorphone, the basis of the synthetic opiate Dilaudid.

1970		R. Gilmore Drug Education Hbk.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 15: Mister blue — Morphine.

see po-po n.

(US Und.) a victim, a gullible fool.

1913

Sun (NY) 27 July 40/1: It’s the old wire with a new twist. They have a phony poolroom [...] Mr Boob comes alonmg and the booster steers him in.

see booze n. / boozington n.

(US) a slightly mocking ref. to a leader.

1988

D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 150: We been here before, Mr. Boss Hoss.

a homosexual.

1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 35/1: Brown, Mr. [...] A passive pederast.
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 422: Thats what Chief Bulgler Houston was – a regular Mister Brown.

1. (US drugs) heroin.

1987		Hudson & Stradlin ‘Mr Brownstone’ 🎵 I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do / So the little got more and more / [...] / We been dancin' with Mr. Brownstone / He’s been knockin’ / He won't leave me alone.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/2: Mr Brownstone n. heroin, esp. brown heroin.
2009		W.D. Myers Dope Sick 105: The brownstone man was on 105th and Park. He ran a little bodega on the corner and sold stuff from Mexico right over the counter.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 62: [W]hat little in the way of brains the good Lord had given him was being eaten away by pills and on occasion Mr. Brownstone.

2. (drugs) hashish.

2005

J. Salazar Legion of the Lost 226: I went back to Michaud and the gang but he got up with a chunk of hashish in his hand. ‘Excuse me a moment. Just going outside for a word with Monsieur Brownstone.’ .

see Charlie n.

see separate entry.

see Chuck n.

1. (US) an obsessively neat and prudish man.

1972

Dahlskog Dict. Contemp. and Colloq. Usage 41/2: Mr. Clean, n. An obnoxiously neat or prudish fellow.

2. (orig. US) someone who makes a point of portraying themselves (sincerely or otherwise) as free of corruption; esp. in politics, business, sport or other forms of public life in which a proclaimed moral stance is useful; ext. as Miss Clean, Mrs Clean.

1976		Maclean’s 9 Feb. 47: A tough, outspoken Texan who was dubbed ‘Mr. Clean’ by the Toronto Star.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 209: Now he’s the Mr Clean of the BBC.

1. the penis.

2002

D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 She’s very easy on the eye is that polo mint, and she looks even better as I help her slide her edinburgh fringe down onto the top of my mr cool.

2. see Joe Cool under joe n.¹

(US black) a white person.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 208: Mr Cracker [...] any white male.

see cunningham n.

a tailor.

1826

‘Nocturnal Sports’ in Universal Songster II 179/2: If that’s the case of it, Mister Cut, says Charley, you’re cutting yourself out for a watchhouse hit.

see double tripe n.¹

(US black) a man who mistreats women.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 148: A number of terms were used to characterize the young man who could not be trusted [...] Mr. Do-you-wrong, no-account, bad-ass, no-account nigger.

(US black) a white man.

1926		Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 286: Mr. Eddie: a white man.
1929		T. Gordon Born to Be (1975) 236: Miss Ann and Mister Eddie: Emancipated blue-bloods.

see fake n.¹ (1)

(N.Z.) a fat person.

1908

Truth (Wellington) 2 May 5/4: [headline] A Reprisal Raid on Mr Fat.

(UK Und.) a phr. used to announce that a policeman is present.

1865

Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 64/2: Looking them steadily in the ‘mug,’ asked ‘Who let you in here?’ — at the same time giving the ‘office’ through the open door that ‘Mr. Ferguson’s’ beer was ready for him. This Mr. Ferguson is a name used by first class ‘guns’ to intimate in the absence of any other opportunity that a ‘copper’ is present.

(US drugs) an addict who volunteers to undergo a Federal cure in prison.

1936		D. Maurer ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 124/1: mr. fish. An addict who gives himself up to Federal officials voluntarily and goes to prison in an effort to break himself of the habit.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 312: Mister Fish. An addict who gives himself up to the law in order to break the habit.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.

(US) a very short, fat man.

1944		C.S. Montanye ‘Publicity for the Corpse’ in Thrilling Detective Dec. 🌐 The coffee magnate was as wide as he was tall. A light tan edition of Mr. Five-by-Five.
1957		(con. 1943) R. Leckie Helmet for My Pillow 122: Mr. Five-by-Five got his nickname from his build — a few inches over five feet in height and almost that much in breadth [HDAS].

1. a general facilitator.

1971		N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 128: You are really Mr Fix-it, aren’t you, brother?
1976		R. Carver Stories (1985) 196: This Ross guy spent his time repairing things [...] I had his number, Mr Fixit.
1999		Guardian Weekend 6 Nov. 39: He became Death Row’s Mr Fixit.

2. a DIY expert.

1989

M. Amis London Fields 46: Me? I’m Handy Andy. Mr Fixit innit.

1. a euph. for motherfucker n. [initial letters].

1989

H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 258: Such variations on the unstated theme as M.F., Marshall Field, and Mister Franklin, the slurred mo’-fo’ and muh-fuh, the rococo triple-clutcher, popularized by black truck drivers in army construction battalions; and the clipped momma, mother, and muther.

2. see Ben Franklin n.

(N.Z. prison) a detective.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/2: Mr Gadget n. a detective.

see gotrocks n.

a gullible man, a ‘sucker’.

1827		Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 201: The knowing cockney, the leary dog-merchant, and the cunning countryman, all upon the look out for a Mr. Green from the city.
1833		Satirist (London) 17 Mar. 511/1: It is cut and crawl, crawl and cut; or Mr. Green on a visit to Mr. Green. [...] Such a brace, ha! ha! Noodle and doodle — a muff and tippet.

see old Mr Grim under old adj.

see grog n.¹ (1)

(orig. US) the penis.

1986		M. Petit Peacekeepers 89: Just keep saying hello to Mr. Happy.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 296: You could always gag me with Mr. Happy there.
2003		‘Your Correctional Officer’ ‘What’s Grosser Than Gross’ 7 Jan. at Dooce.com 🌐 Flossing your ass with barbed wire. / Jumping off the Empire State Building and catching your eyelid on a nail. / Similarly, jumping naked off said building and catching the ridge of Mr. Happy’s Helmet on said nail.
2000		Erotic Rev. Mar. 6: Nice for a person to know, but irrelevant while attempting a game of Mr Happy Hides His Helmet.

(W.I.) a hard task-master, a strict superior.

1974

cited in Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996).

see Hawkins n.³

any nameless object.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Mr. Hickenbothom; a ludicrous name for an unknown person, similar to that of Mr. Thingambob. Hickenbothom, i.e. a corruption of the German word ickenbaum, i.e. oak tree.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.

(US black) a security policeman, e.g. at a school.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 247: Mr. Hombug 1. School security officer. 2. Security police in general.

a lame or limping person; thus don’t hurry, Mr Hopkins, meaning in US ‘hurry up’, and in UK ‘don’t bother to go too fast’.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Mr. Hopkins; a ludicrous address to a lame or limping man, being a pun on the word hop.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1872		Schele De Vere Americanisms 610: In the West, on the contrary, they have a phrase, Don’t hurry, Hopkins! [...] used ironically in speaking to persons who are very slow in their work, or in meeting an obligation.

1. a promiscuous man, esp. one who cuckolds others.

a.1704		T. Brown Satire on Marriage in Works (1760) I 58: Cries the bone of your side, thanks, dear Mr. Horner.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 165: He like a pointer rang’d about / [...] / In hopes to spy this Mr. Horner.

2. the penis [the object that does the cuckolding but note also horn n.² (1a)].

1896

Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 78: Corne, f. 1. The penis; ‘Mr. Horner’.

(N.Z. prison) a policeman.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/2: Mr Jailerman n. a policeman.

see jones n.¹ (1)

see Jack Ketch n.

the police.

1961

T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 45: I waited for Mr Law’s visit feeling very pleased with myself, as I’d have the laugh on them.

see Lo n.¹

a state of drunkenness.

1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 321: The attention he displayed towards any of his party; when Mr Lushington had got ‘the best of them,’ showed his judgement.
1832		Egan Bk of Sports 27: Fond of a bit of life; a gay boy in principle; frequently meeting with Mr. Lushington.
1899		A. Binstead Gal’s Gossip 134: She will have to make a personal application to the sitting magistrate at Bow Street — a Mr Lushington, I believe.

see Joe McGee n. (3)

an effeminate man, who wears female clothing.

1703

T. Baker Tunbridge Walks dramatis personae: Maiden, A Nice-Fellow, that values himself upon all Effeminancies. [Ibid.] I i: maiden: You have a fine daughter to dispose of here; I design to make some Overtures. woodc.: You — Thou Effeminate Coxcombe, Dost though think she’ll like one of her own Sex. [Ibid.] II i: Enter Mr. Maiden with Musick [...] (While the Song’s Performing, Maiden uses a Fan, a Pocket Lookinglass, &c.) [...] See, Nymphs, a Swain more soft than you: We Patch, and we Paint, [...] We play with a Fan, / We Squeak, and we Skream, / We’re Women, meer Women i’ th’ end. [...] hill: But pray Mr. Maiden, How d’you employ your self for want of an Office in London? maiden: Why, Madam, I never keep Company with lewd Rakes that go to nasty Taverns, talk Smuttily, and get Fuddl’d, but Visit the Ladies, and Drink Tea, and Chocolate. [...] I love mightily to go abroad in Women’s Clothes.

see benny mason n.

(W.I./UK black teen) a person known as a popular figure or as a successful womanizer.

1995

Francis-Jackson Official Dancehall Dict. 34: Mr Mention someone who is very popular.

(N.Z. prison) heroin.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/2: Mr Miggles n. heroin.

see Caspar Milquetoast n.

1. a rich person.

1958

R. Chandler Playback 124: A big shot from the treasury Department [...] happened to see Mr. Money.

2. (US black) a derog. name for a Jew.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 61: Other labels [...] three balls, and Mr. Money, characterized the Jew — particularly the Jewish merchant.

(US) a Japanese or Asian man; also attrib.

1942		Time 9 Feb. 24: The Jap, who is variously ‘Mr. Moto,’ ‘Tojo,’ ‘Charlie,’ or ‘the Japanzy’ to U.S. troops, was beginning to show a heavy preference for night movement [HDAS].
1957		J. Blake ‘Day of the Alligator’ in Algren Lonesome Monsters (1963) 133: Die like a dog, Mr. Moto! Take that, and that!
1967		C. Cooper Jr Farm (1968) 114: She was [...] wearing a stupid pair of Mr. Moto-type glasses.
1975		M*A*S*H [CBS-TV] Get the message, Mr. Moto? [HDAS].

(Aus.) the groin.

2002

Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 Mister Mutch: the crutch (groin) .

(US) a well-built man.

1955

‘Hal Ellson’ ‘Wrong Way Home’ in Tell Them Nothing (1956) 146: We meet Mr. Muscles coming up. His shoulders is too wide and he don’t give an inch.

a fool, a simpleton.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

1. a pleasant, amenable person, although that status carries a certain conditionality; thus no more Mr Nice Guy, also used ironically.

1960		A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene vii: I’ll be back to talk to you [...] because I’m ‘Mr Nice Guy’, and you like me a lot.
1974		J. Lahr Hot to Trot 125: Aren’t there a few tears for dear old Mr. Nice Guy?
1983		J. Sullivan ‘Wanted’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] One of them pretends he really wants to beat you up bad, right, and the other one pretends to be Mr Nice!
1989		Gang Starr [song title] No More Mr Nice Guy.
1993		Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 114: One of the guys tried to stab Dave with a fork. That was the end of being Mr Nice Guy.
2007		C.K. Robinson No More Mr. Nice Guy [title].
2016		Guardian G2 10 Feb. 5/1: Collins was pop’s Mr Nice Guy: not cool any more, but well-liked.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1986		J. Campbell Gate Fever 32: He didn’t trust the comparatively liberal regime [...] and he didn’t want any part of ‘their mister-nice-guy games’.
2003		Music from the Corner ‘This Tune Ain’t Shit’ 🎵 No more Mr Nice stuff.
2004		(con. 1988) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 330: I was suspicious when he started coming over with a Mr Nice Guy routine.

the penis.

1836

‘Oh! Come to Me and Let me Feel!!!’ in Gentleman’s Private Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 383: That I might take your hand, / To Mr P. in all his pride, / Who still for you will stand.

a pedant.

c.1850

Peeping Tom (London) 22 86/2: I hope you are satisfied, Mister Particular.

the local corner newspaper/sweet shop or small grocery.

1998		N. Bhushan CONNECT 1 Aug. 🌐 The weekend shopping get-together at Mr Patel’s grocery where vintage Bollywood hits played in the subdued background, kept visitors, from Goans to South Indians, connected with their inner identity.
2003		C. Lowes ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the North East’ BBC.co.uk 🌐 On the corner / Mr. Patel sells / samosas on Sundays / wine in plastic, / Woodbines in fives.

(US black) a white man.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 208: Mr Peanut [...] any white male.

the penis.

1866		E. Sellon Phoebe Kissagen n.p.: Then the children, laughing and pushing, seized hold of Mr Peaslin and popped him in.
1883		‘Three Chums’ in Boudoir III 93: Sarah would have him place the head of Mr. Peaslin just between the lips of her pussey.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: She would [...] gently wag Mr. Peaslin, who was always in a state of erection.

see peeler n.²

a black man.

1968

(con. late 19C) S. Longstreet Wilder Shore 216: Mister Peters (Negroes, so called because of the legend of the size of their genitalia).

see plod n.²

a parson.

1774		Foote Cozeners in Works (1799) II 162: Did I not tell you what Parson Prunello said.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

see Richard n. (2)

see separate entry.

the hangman.

a.1705

Dorset ‘Song’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets VIII (1810) 345: The queen, overhearing what Betty did say, Would send Mr. Roper to take her away.

a sexually appealling male, thus Miss Sex Appeal.

1998

Stage (London) 30 July 21/3: It is no longer necessary to be be trim, slim and Mr or Miss Sex Appeal to become a leading actor.

(US) an extortionist, a blackmailer.

2023

(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 397: ‘I get the show of force and Mister Shakedown himself smoothes my feathers’.

(US black/L.A.) a member of the vice squad.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 67: You find expressions like [...] Mr. Sin for vice cops. [Ibid.] 247: Mr. Sin Vice squad officer.

(US) a very large man.

1957

‘Ed Lacy’ Lead With Your Left (1958) 45: He was a giant, a real mister six by six.

see smarty n.

(US drugs/teen) a regular smoker of marijuana.

2001

OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 smoke-a-boal (Mr... ) n. a person who uses a bong regularly.

(US) a knock-out drop.

1904

C. Connors Bowery Life [ebook] Peter? Dat’s a drink dey call Mr. Snyder. Say, is you gettin’ rats in de nut? [...] Why, it’s a knockout, see.

(US) a revolver, a pistol.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1944		D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 17: She flagged a kill joy who soon had Mister Speaker facing the skull. And that’s that.
1994		P. Baker Blood Posse 228: Brother man, you ain’t got to use that there speaker on me.

a tailor.

1714

A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 71: His Taylor [...] who had lately arrested him for a Summ of four or five Pounds which he ow’d Mr. Stitch.

(W.I./Jam.) a determined individual.

1873

C. Rampini Letters from Jamaica 87: A determined person is ‘Mr. Strong-eye’.

a coachman.

1714

A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 151: He laid upon Mr. Switch like a D—l.

(W.I., Rasta) the boss.

2004

‘Patois Dict.’ at www.dancehallareaz.com.

1. an agent, usu. in show business, who takes 10% (at least) of their client’s earnings.

2002

J. Powell Bobby Moore: The Life and Times of a Sporting Hero 224: Through it all, Turner was strictly Mr Ten Per Cent. He said: ‘Other agents expected fifteen or twenty per cent but I believed Bobby was something special.’.

2. a middleman, esp. between interest groups and politicians, who arranges ‘favours’ and directs influence for some cut of the subsequent profits.

1970		R. First Power in Africa 102: In one country after another, African politicians came to be known as Mr Ten Per Cent. Politicians extracted such a commission for services rendered.
2001		T. Bachand ‘A Vagabond World’ ThomasBachand.com 🌐 He looked around to make sure none were listening to our English and said, ‘That’s Mr. Ten Percent.’ ‘What?’ I said, not certain I had heard him correctly. ‘Mr. Ten Percent,’ he repeated quietly. ‘That is how we call General Suharto. He takes ten percent of everything.’.

see cit. 1785.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Mr. Thingstable, Mr. Constable, a ludicrous affectation of delicacy in avoiding the pronunciation of the first syllable in the title of that officer, which in sound has some similarity to an indecent monosyllable.
[1798		in Sporting Mag. June XII 160/1: ‘April 22th 1798. I Hear By giv Notius that all the Ship and cattel Sall Be kept Out [...] .......Cunstobble’].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

see Uncle Tom n.

see three balls n. (1)

(US black) the penis.

1977

J.L. Dillard Lex. Black Eng. 33: Other Black terms for the penis include arm [...] swipe, private, Jones, pecker, stallion, Mister Tom and Johnson.

(drugs) a 26-gauge hypodermic syringe.

1967		Maurer & Vogel Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction (3rd edn).
1975		Hardy & Cull Drug Lang. and Lore.

(UK Und.) a pawnbroker.

1823

‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 183: ‘Mister Two-to-one’ ? a pawn-broker; that being the advantage he takes of his customers’ necessities: the method of suspending his golden-balls ? two above one below, seems to tell this plainly.

(drugs) a marijuana smoker.

1959

J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.

(US black/drugs) phencyclidine mixed with formaldehyde.

1992

Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 51: Mr. Whipple and Bomb Expressions used in reference to the drug PCP that has been mixed with embalming fluid.

(US) the American government or its law enforcement agencies.

1938		W. Winchell On Broadway 23 Aug. [synd. col.] The divorce is being retarded over which of them will pay Mr. Whiskers the tax on his parting gift of $300,000.
1940		N.Y. Herald Trib. 17 July 38/2: [advert] [...] So What?; Jallopy; Very spotty dealer situation; high hat; cut it out; Mr. Whiskers; Swing it!; c.o.d.; Hi ya, kid!
1953		T. Runyon In for Life 234: But toward the minions of Mr. Whiskers’ justice machine I still had plenty of resentment.
1967		‘M.T. Knight’ Terrible Ten 81: Mr. Whiskers’s snoopers [couldn’t make you talk] [HDAS].

a fool, a simpleton.

1823

‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 195: Wiggins ? Mr. any mannerist of small brains and showy feather . The ‘three Mr. Wigginses,’ portrayed by Dighton, were ‘habited alike from top to toe,’ and kept the step of the bird-cage walk, in their Sunday ambulations.

1. a man wearing a wig.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Wigsby, Mr. Wigsby; a man wearing a wig.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Wigsby; a man wearing a wig.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. (UK Und.) a judge.

1788

‘Rolling Blossom’ in Festival of Anacreon in Wardroper Lovers, Rakers and Rogues (1995) 180: Wigsby has passed sentence.

(US black) chilly winter winds, esp. as experienced in northern cities.

2001

J. Mercer Joshmercer.com 22 Dec. 🌐 I’ve discovered that I drive like a southerner. Let me elaborate on the driving conditions in Minnesota. I was driving 70 mph all through Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. Then in Minnesota it starts to snow. 70...60...50...40...30! [...] And then Mister Wind decided that my car should be in the left lane. And then my car decided to dance with some black ice, turning my vehicle about 15 degrees.

see play Mr Wobbly hides his helmet under play (at)... v.

see wong n.¹

a police truncheon.

1957		(con. 1919) P. Beveridge Inside the C.I.D. 17: We had some practice with the truncheon, a fifteen-inch length of hard wood known as ‘Mr. Wood’.
1968		Partridge DU (3rd edn) 848/1: Mr. Wood. A truncheon [...] since ca. 1920.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 150: Charlie or Mr. Wood – a police truncheon. ‘If you don’t come quiet I’ll introduce you to my friend Charlie.’.

(US) a barber.

1918		Robert Lloyd ‘Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip’ 🎵 Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, with your hair cut just as short as mine, / Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, You’re surely looking fine!
1945		in Calif. Folklore Quarterly V (1946) 383: Mr. Zip-Zip. Ship’s barber [HDAS].
2003		R. Schickel [bk title] Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip. Movies, Memory, and World War II.

of a woman, pregnant [knapped adj.].

1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 248: Speaking of a woman supposed to be pregnant, it is common to say, I believe Mr Knap is concerned, meaning that she has knap’d.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues IV 118/1: Mr. Knap’s been there, is said of a pregnant woman.

see under nash v.¹

(orig. gay) the hand, used for masturbation.

2003

Urban Terrorist Empire 🌐 Who better than Mr. Palmer and his five sons to keep old granny warm on those cold nights, now that grandpa has gone to a better place?

see under palm v.

see under pull v.