club n.
the penis.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Epigram 1X in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 694/2: Flora [...] Naked Alcide’s statue did behold; And with delight admired each am’rous limb [...] To such tall joints a taller club belonge’d – The club hung by his thigh. | |
| ‘Ad Johannuelem Leporem’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 155: Philip [...] Made such a thrust at Phoebe, with his Club, That made the Parthians cry, she will becack us. | |
| Hudibras Pt II canto 1 line 355: Love’s power [...] Seiz’d on his Club, and made it dwindle T’a feeble Distaff. | |
 | ‘Imitation of Horace’ in Maidment Scotish Pasquils (2nd edn) 342: Stout David Williamson, Alcides-like, with club [...] lights upon My Ladies fine young daughter. | |
| Arbor Vitae in Cabinet of Love (1739) 204: That of this Tree that Club was made, with which the Bully Hero’s said t’have tam’d the fifty Daughters wild of Thespis. | |
| New Atalantis 57: Me believe it [i.e. a penis] be Hercules’s club, it so knock me down. | |
| New Atalantis Fraxi 111 272: His lordship [is] of a make like Hercules, whose club, or something very like it, he usually carried about him. | |
| Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 20: Seiz’d on his club and made it dwindle / T’a feeble distaff and a spindle. | |
| Bacchanalian Mag. 50: Original and selected Toasts and Sentiments [...] May the Cushion of Life be thumped by the Club of Vigour. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| [ | ![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Memoirs of Madge Buford 103: Those two police cocks, as big as their clubs]. |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 194: Weaponry is particularly well represented […] as a blunt instrument (cudgel, club, crozier or doob – an Australian aboriginal word for a pipe of hollow wood). |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a thug; also attrib., adj. club-fisted, brutal.
| et al. Mirror for Magistrates (1815) 79: The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte, / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast. | |
| Eustathia n.p.: VVith club-fist violence, and clownish force, / To breake into that princelie Pyramis. | |
| Works 815: Alwayes at hand, to aide the merry Muses. / Great Club-fist, though thy backe, and bones be sore. | |
| Good conscience 277: Pashur is a club fisted fellow [...] Pashurs club-fist? Think vpō this afore hand, & weigh it well. |
a police station.
| Lady in the Lake (1952) 30: Come on, talk it up. Unless you want to ride down to the clubhouse and sweat it out under the bright lights. |
In phrases
pregnant.
| Reported Safe Arrival 13: Wot made yew jine the Army? Pleese arter yer? Or d’jer put a servant-gal in the Club? | |
| Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: All these bints writing in because someone’s left them in the club. | |
| Loot Act I: Is that when birds say you’ve put them in the club? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | in Tharunka 13 June 14/4: ‘[F]or Christ's sake whatever you do don't get them in the Club’. | |
| (con. 1959) Up the Cross 66: Then Rusty had hit Donnie with the news that she was in the club. | |
| West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 129: Bird’s in the club. | |
| Vinnie Got Blown Away 130: So Sharon got the club her sixteenth birthday. | |
| Happy Like Murderers 86: [She] lived off the Tobyfield Road and had been put in the club by him. | |
| Black Swan Green 260: She’s only in the club, ain’t she [...] Preggers! | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 527: ‘You’re up the duff. In the club’. |