Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US prison) a minimum security prison, usu. housing white-collar criminals; also attrib.

1949		W. Burroughs letter 16 April in Harris (1993) 47: I am subject to 2–5 years in Angola, which is definitely not a Country Club.
1960		I. Freeman Out of the Burning (1961) 12: I bet the four-eyed mushmouth had never seen the country club he had sent hundreds of bops to.
1975		E. Torres Carlito’s Way 114: It’s a Joint but it’s a country club compared to the Tombs.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 81: His aunt and uncle were . . . shipped off to a country club prison in North Florida.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 182: Coldwater [...] was no country club, but it wasn’t a gladiator school either.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 46/2: country club n. a prison.
2011		W. Henderson City of Nightmares Part Two 6: Mom, this place [i.e. Fairview State Hospital, TX] is like a country club [...] they got pool tables for us, bowling elleys [etc.].
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 112: I been away—at the fuckin country club, you chump.

2. in non-custodial sense, any kind of easy, non-stressful workplace.

1969		L. Schecter Jocks 111: [H]is club is called ‘the country club’ The manager makes few demands on his players.
1973		P. Maas Serpico 58: His instructors [at the NYC Police Academy] had spoken of some precincts that were ‘country clubs’—in the quieter residential sections of the city [...]. ‘You’ll learn more in an action precinct in three months [...] than you will in three years in one of those country clubs.

3. (N.Z. gay) nickname of a well-known Auckland Domain Kiosk public lavatory used for gay soliciting.

2010

W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: In Auckland, the most notorious beat operating between 1910 and the turn of the twenty-first century was the Country Club.