Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. objects, things, presumably beneficial.

1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 35: I knows of a Gospel-shop w’ere they takes in their Sunday dimes on silver plates, and sarves up their goodies on the same sort o’ stuff.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 3: He is very generous — share and share alike with him, whatever ‘goodies’ come in his trunk.
1890		(con. 1860s) W. Goss Recollections of a Private 229: She took a lot of goodies out of her gripsack, an orange and other things.
1894		Comet (Johnson City, TN) 1 Nov. 3/6: Ham, eggs [...] doughnuts, ’simmon pudding, punkin pie, and all sorts of goodies.
1942		P. Larkin letter 21 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 49: I also feel the need of writing to someone, and thought you would be most pleased to receive a few goodies from home.
1959		E. De Roo Go, Man, Go! 136: I got lots of goodies cooked up for you and that big-mouthed old-man of yours.
1963		M. Spillane Return of the Hood 32: You, my friend, were entrusted with the goodies.
1972		J. McNeill Old Familiar Juice (1973) 69: bulla: [A]ttach yourself [...] ter someone who’ll do all the battlin’ and bring home the goodies to yer.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 266: [He] rushed and darted about with his cigarette-girl’s tray of goodies, seeing to it that a healthy round of Magic was available to all.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 112: The suitcase, shotgun, and tape machine were nestled in the trunk. The other goodies on my person.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 284: Eyes then wide in disbelief at the sight ay the goodies oan the bed.
1999		Disend ‘Afterword’ in Black You Can’t Win (2000) 312: The goodies keep getting snatched away. Unwholesome intentions create unwholesome karma.
2010		Guardian 18 Dec. 41/3: Reach into the further shores of cable/satellite and you can pull out all kinds of goodies: Errol Flynn in the 1938 version of Robin Hood.

2. drugs; in sing., a marijuana cigarette.

1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 52: Martin had the cigarette case out. Cigarettes were rough-cut as if handmade. ‘Goodies,’ Lisette said [...] ‘Careful,’ Martin said. ‘These are not cut. They’ll blow your wig’.
1963		M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 108: ‘Pass the goodies,’ Furg said. Cabiness took six of the pills and handed two of them to Clair.
1975		E. Torres Carlito’s Way 72: He dealt the goodies, but being a garbage can he showed his hand on the first deal—glommed the money and he took off to Europe.
1998		L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 121: They suspect, by my purposeful stride, that I have just copped some goodies.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 16: ‘How’s this for a cosmic turkey!’ he laughed, holding up a plethora of pharmaceutical goodies.
2011		W. Henderson City of Nightmares pt 2 v: Buddies trying to give you goodies just to break you in.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] [H]e felt the pull of the old first-aid tin full of goodies [i.e. opium pills].

3. possessions.

1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 17: You want to look at the goodies? In the trunk.
1977		(con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 146: The tax man, too, came at this time to ask where all the goodies had gone.
1981		J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 213: When the dude’s haulin her goodies off in a pilla case.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 3: Tijuana cops standing by to bootjack a piece of his goodies.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 217: You reckon you can get your hands on his goodies?

4. (US) sexual intercourse.

1968		N. Heard Howard Street 47: She grabbed his hand. ‘C’mon, it’s goodies time.’.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 141: We’ll save the goodies for when your doctor gives you the green light.

5. (US campus) alcohol.

1967–8

Baker et al. CUSS.

6. (US) information, facts.

1966		R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 237: You send me the goodies on that bastard, hear? I want to do right by him.
1971		T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Froy is keen to get the goodies on Camille’s Playmate of the Month.

7. (US) the genitals; the female breasts; thus sexual favours.

1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 71: All right in the dark, like, and no peeking at the goodies.
1967		F. Salas Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 321: Get goodies, instead. Cop a feel, Buzzer.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 145: ‘By heavens, Damon,’ panted Siri hoarsely, energetically ramming her shelf-load of goodies into my face, ‘you are the greatest sex machine I have ever met’.
1972		(con. c.1930) G. Sothern Georgia 228: Burlesque is crude, the way you tell it. But for your crowd I’ve got to have all my goodies flying to the four winds.
1977		S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 57: I wrap my goodies up for special heroes.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 142: Any and all sexually desirable parts of a woman’s anatomy [...] are referred to as g or goodies.
1993		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 110: She was dressed in a more ‘show off the goodies’ manner.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 87: Marilyn has been known to lay her goodies on Pete Pitchess.