Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pertaining to lesbians or lesbianism.

c.1930		(ref. to 1898) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 261: I didn’t go in for dyke or freakish homosexual mixed games.
1956		Kerouac letter 16 Jan. in Charters I (1995) 542: Throw that Gertrude Stein away she makes me puke with her dike cutiness concealing all that venom.
1966		(con. 1958) R. Farina Been Down So Long (1972) 41: What about that litle dyke chic with the Joan of Arc look?
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 217: You do a lot of faggot jokes — as opposed to dike jokes.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 37: Jack was now going to a dyke shrink.
1983		R. Price Breaks 312: Two chicks in watch caps and pea coats, arm in arm, leaning against the wall of a dyke bar.
1999		J. Ridley Love Is a Racket 86: Dyke or straight, they were better than what we got now.
2003		P. Cornwell Blow Fly (2004) 77: Forgot you were gay. Guess I should be more sensitive about queers and dyke wrestlers, huh?
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] I hope you dig eating dyke pussy...’cause it’s gonna be on tap.
2017		Young M.A. ‘OOOUUU’ 🎵 Dyke bitches talkin' out they jaw / Next minute, callin’ for the law.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 39: ‘Natalie Wood?’ [...] ‘Rumored to be ensconced at a dyke slave den’.