stitch, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

stitch v.

also go on the stitch

[the in and out SE stitching movement of the penis or of the fists ]

1. to have sexual intercourse, to penetrate sexually; thus stitching n.

1573		‘Cambridg Libell’ in May & Bryson Verse Libel 338: A cleark doth thread her needle often, / For she doth daylye stiche.
1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 48: When he thinks do to his best it is but so so, and he cannot goe narrow stitch with any thing.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:4 11: One Sempstress in her Hut a stitching Another just strol’d out a B--ing.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 218: He talk’d of a slit I had above Knee, / But I’ll have no taylors to stitch it for me.
1725		View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 45: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Stichwell [Is Visited] By three Officers of the Guards.
1744		Machine 12: I’d [...] even stitch Black Bess at Mother King’s, Nay, Moll herself, with all her Clouts and Rings.
1749		Satan’s Harvest Home 5: A strange Paradox; that a Girl, who cou’d never be taught to the Use of her Needle, becomes on a sudden a wonderful Proficient in the Art of stitching.
1768		‘Universal Toast’ in Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 14: The Book-binder’s wife who well stitches in sheets.
1779		Nocturnal Revels I 165: Being a Bookseller’s daughter, she [...] had, for a considerable time, stitched under her own father’s inspection.
1786		C. Morris ‘The Great Plenipotentiary’ Collection of Songs (1788) 45: All heads were bewitched and longed to be stitched.
1798		‘Medley’ in Hilaria 39: Poor Jack, the Brighton taylor, / For stitching well a button-hole, was pinned up by the jailor.
c.1800		‘Pious Parson’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1843) 75: [He] stitched the goddess Juno / That haughty bitch of thunder / He ramm’d his tarse Into her — And split her c— asunder.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1840		‘The French Millinger’ in Facetious Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 264: A pretty French milliner owed me some money, / Which she promis’d to pay in a manner quite funny, / [...] / Monsieur, me vil pay you your money in stitching.
1843		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 28 Jan. n.p.: How about 7 Sohem street? Do they take in stitching there?
1855		Yokel’s Preceptor 8: Mary Mitchell, the Black Mot [...] was a good-hearted mot and used to support her aged parents by her button-hole stitching.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 82: courir l’aiguilette = 1. to copulate; ‘to go on the stitch’.
c.1950		Nunnery versus Fuckery 19: He was going to have to stitch his hot rod right into the place that he knew it belonged.

2. to beat in a fight or contest.

1837		True Colonist (Hobart, Tas.) 21 Apr. 585/2: ‘I thought we could stitch you,’ said the little winner [...] (shaking the sovereigns in his purse).
1953		Baker Aus. Speaks.

3. (US) to shoot dead, to kill.

2002

(con. 1967) J. Laurence Cat from Hué 442: Of all the words American troops used to describe death in Vietnam—aced, blown away, bought it, croaked, dinged, fucked up, greased, massaged, porked, stitched, sanitized, smoked, snuffed, terminated, waxed, wiped out, zapped—the one I heard most was ‘wasted.’.

4. see stitch up v. (5)

In compounds

stitch gear (n.)

(N.Z. prison) a gown made of stiched, quilted fabricn that cannot easily be torn.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 178/2: stitch gear n. a short-sleeved, round necked gown made of stitched, quilted fabric that cannot be torn.

stitch blanket (n.)

(N.Z. prison) a blanket made of stitched, quilted fabric that cannot easily be torn by ‘at-riisk’ inmates.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 178/2: stitch blanket n. a blanket designed for ‘at-risk’ inmates, made of stitched, quilted fabric that cannot be torn [...] designed for ‘at-risk’ inmates, who may destroy their normal clothes.