dinner, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dinner n.

[abbr. chicken dinner under chicken n.; + she is ‘good enough to eat’]

(US black) an attractive young woman.

1946

Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 216: Mezz, this is my new dinner and she’s a solid viper.

dinner basket (n.)

(Aus.) the stomach.

1889

Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 Sept. 3/2: All at once the Jokist turned up queer, and his hands involuntarily sought his dinner basket.

dinner buckets (n.) (also dinner lungs, dinners) [their role as milk carriers]

(US) the female breasts.

1953		Randolph & Wilson Down in the Holler 120: The real old-time term for the female breasts is not bosom but dinners; young smart-alecs say bubbies.
1965–67		in DARE II 76/2: A woman’s breasts [...] dinner buckets.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 205: [S]ome of those T-shirted little dandies with the no-panties and the dinner lungs came up to us .

dinner-holder (n.)

the stomach.

1860

Sporting Life (London) 17 Oct. 3/4: Tyler neatly stopped a well-intended hot from Gillam’s left, and countered him in the dinner-holder.

dinner pailer (n.) [SE dinner pail; lit. one who carries a dinner pail]

(US) a regular working man or woman; also v. dinner-pail, to work at a regular job.

1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 59/1: Dinner-pailer. A workingman.
1969		C. Gordone No Place To Be Somebody 39: Givin’ you a education or teachin’ you to dinner-pail didn’t seem to me to be no way for you to grow up [DARE].

dinner-set (n.)

the teeth.

1824		Annals of Sporting 1 May 313: The Champion lost part of his best dinner-set.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

be dinner for tea (v.)

to be very easy and pleasant.

1912		E. Pugh City Of The World 237: ‘They’re dinner for tea, they are,’ Jimmy wound up, appreciatively.
1924		E. Pugh in Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 Apr. 24/7: ‘Dinner for tea’ means an extraordinarily beautiful piece of good luck.

dive for a dinner (v.)

done like (a) dinner (adj.)

have had more — than one has had hot dinners (v.)

a general phr. used to imply the expertise of the named person in a certain area of life, esp. of sexual experience.

1937		J. Worby Other Half 61: You’ve slept with more guys than I’ve had hot dinners.
1959		W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Outside the boozers. More fights in one night than you’ve had hot dinners.
1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 66: We can draw on more strength [...] than Mrs. Byrd, to put it crudely, has had hot dinners.
1963		N. Dunn Up the Junction 38: He’s had more girls than hot dinners, he has.
1979		F. Norman Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 29: They’ve flogged more tomfoolery to the British aristocracy and the crowned heads of Europe than you’ve had hot dinners.
1989		Viz June/July 25: And I’ve had more pricks than you’ve had hot dinners!
1998		E. Brightwell Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake 151: I’ve been out more times at night than you’ve had hot dinners.
2005		S. O’Brien Lonely Planet Sydney 131: They’ve got more screens than you’ve had hot dinners.
2015		(con. 1960s) M. Peppiatt Bacon in Your Blood 45: She’s had more cocks than you’ve had hot dinners.