club n.
the penis.
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. | Epigram 1X in Chalmers||
Wit Restor’d (1817) 155: Philip [...] Made such a thrust at Phoebe, with his Club, That made the Parthians cry, she will becack us. | ‘Ad Johannuelem Leporem’||
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. | ||
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. | Arbor Vitae in||
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. | ||
[ | 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.
Mirror for Magistrates (1815) 79: The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte, / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast. | et al.
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? | ||
Tharunka 13 June 14/4: ‘[F]or Christ's sake whatever you do don't get them in the Club’. | in||
Up the Cross 66: Then Rusty had hit Donnie with the news that she was in the club. | (con. 1959)||
Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 129: Bird’s in the club. | West in||
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’. |