Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the penis.

c.1499		Skelton Bowge of Courte line 407: Had I as good an hors as she is a mare [...] Who rydeth on her, he nedeth not to care, For she is trussed for to breke a launce.
1514		Skelton Agenst Garnesche i line 16: Thow ye be lusty as Sir Lybyus, launces to breke, Yet your contenons oncomly, yor face ys nat fayer.
c.1602		Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida I iii: The Grecian dames are sunburnt, and not worth the splinter of a lance.
1615		ballad in Wardroper (1969) 167: Wasse Cupid pricke her with her [i.e. his] launce.
1622		J. Attey First Book of Airs in Bullen Speculum Amantis (1889) 15: And when I charge, my lance in rest, I triumph in delight.
1630		J. Taylor ‘Sculler’ in Works (1869) III 24: But haue a care in these hot warres of France, / Least in a pockie heat you spoyle your Lance.
1640		H. Glapthorne Wit in a Constable Act IV: Which of you is the valiant Rosicleer, Dares breake his Launce on me.
1658		W. Chamberlayne Love’s Victory 42: Come grannum, are they fresh and wholesome, such as may be tilted at and not Indanger the head of the Lance?
1661		‘Souldier’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) I 168: [I am] A Standard-bearer ... And have broke many a Lance.
1675		C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 212: And Mankind must in Darkness languish, / Whilst he his bawdy Launce does brandish.
1684		Rochester (attrib.) Sodom III ii: cuntagratia: The generall! I long to see his Pricke. They say he fucks all women in a trance. fuckadilla: Madam, youl say so when you see his lance.
1691		Catalogue of Jilts, cracks, prostitutes, night-walkers [...] and others of the linnen-lifting tribe 2: 22. Mrs Eliz. (alias Betty) S—ds [...] the very Quintessence of Leudness, who brags she has been tilted at by as many Lances, as there are Men in the Confederate Army; her price is 5s. and a Clap she gives into the bargain.
a.1704		N. Ward ‘The Rise and fall of Madam Coming-Sir’ in Writings (1704) 386: Tho’ he had not Pierc’d me with his Launce and laid me Sprawling upon my Back.
1707		Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head (2004) 79: Some skilful Man; / Whose tender hand his Launcet so will guide, / That I the Name of Maid may lay aside.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 312: Pillycock came to my Lady’s Quilt, And there the Whoreson began to Tilt; Had he a Lance, Ay, marry had he.
1763		J. Wilkes Thane of Bute Essay 46: A lance so upright went well couch’d to the root.
[1790		‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 11: Eager he drove, but he could drive no further in, / Jenny had shiver’d the heroe’s [sic] stout lance.
1835		‘My Rummy Poll’s Blind-Eye!’ in Fanny Hill’s Bang-up Reciter 17: But then the thing I most admire, / Is her little black blind eye! [...] And think it is no sin / To make her happy if I can, / And put my lancet in!
1865		‘He Was Fam’d For The Length Of His Jock’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 46: He darted forth his mighty lance, / Which threw them both into a trance.
1881		Loves of Venus 12: His strong ample lance briskly pressed for admission.
1896		‘Confessions of a Virtuous Wife’ in Cabinet of Venus 309: Suck and handle his lance as you please.
1973		(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Bride’s Letter’ in Snatches and Lays 90: Cuddling me closely he pressed with his lance.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 320: Hot dog, joy stick, kidney wiper, knitting needle, lance!
1999		Indep. 22 Nov. 20: Her virginal heroine’s first encounter with the, ahem, lance of manhood.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 lance of longiness Definition: it is a big dick Example: Yo bitch you about to see the lance of longiness!

2. (US drugs) a hypodermic needle.

1952

(con. 1948) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 363: I got your lance up here [...] and he pulled from a drawer the hypo she’d taken from Buster.