machinery n.
1. the head.
![]() | Sketches in London 173: They thought there was a screw loose in the upper part of my machinery. |
2. (US prison) a male homosexual [machine n. (1)].
![]() | Prison Community (1940) 333/2: machinery, n. An invert. |
3. (US drugs) the equipment used for injecting a narcotic.
![]() | Opium Addiction in Chicago. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
![]() | Underground Dict. (1972). |
4. (US) a (sexually appealling) woman.
![]() | Another Mug for the Bier 96: ‘I saw her as I left his apartment. Very well-kept piece of machinery. [...] Very vigorous and healthy-looking tomato’. |
5. the male genitals.
![]() | Close Pursuit (1988) 33: Guy gets a hand underneath the broad’s skirt and finds out he’s got a boy gobbling on his machinery. |
6. (drugs) marijuana.
![]() | ONDCP Street Terms 14: Machinery — Marijuana. |
7. a revolver, a pistol.
![]() | in Damon Runyon (1992) 17: ‘The secret of my success is that i always keep my machinery in good operating condition,’ Bieler told him. |