Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. in pl., the testicles.

1695		Congreve Love for Love V i: That he shall, or I’ll burn his globes.
1978		J. Krantz Scruples 25: Those pouchy globes squeezed together between his legs.

2. a round, pewter pot.

1703		Hell Upon Earth 5: Globe, Pewter.
1708		J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 12: Globe, Pewter.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Globe Pewter. Cant.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1812–82		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.

3. in pl., the female breasts.

1654		Witts Recreations ‘Fancies and Fantasticks’ No. 90: Her breast a place for beauties throne most fit, / Bears up two Globes, where love and pleasure sit.
1709		N. Chorier (trans.) of Meursius ‘The Delights of Venus’ in Cabinet of Love (1739) 189: Just at Sixteen her Breasts began to heave, / And into Snow-white Semi-Globes to cleave.
1748		Spy on Mother Midnight II 239: Her Chest is full, adorned with two Alabaster Globes [...] that heave and pant with such bewitching Grace.
1787		Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 66: Her lovely half globes of nature are [...] of the fairest hue.
1794		T. Dutton (trans.) Art of Cuckoldom 29: Those globes so pleasing to the sight and touch.
1842		Exquisite II:61 8/2: Two ivory globes / Are seen to be quiv’ring like ‘blanc mange,’ or jelly.
1851		G. Thompson Jack Harold 63: A glimpse of her [...] ivory globes.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India I 35: I slipped my hand into her bosom and seized a glowing globe and as I pressed it gently and squeezed the hard little nipples between my fingers, I kissed the loving upturned mouth which was presented to me.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 44: Boules d’ivoire, f. The paps; ‘the globes’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 441: He said that he had seen from the gods my peerless globes as I sat in a box of the Theatre Royal at a command performance of La Cigale.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 31: No woman of her obvious age could ever own such a proud, firm erect set of globes.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 93: Nice globes, babe!
1992		(con. 1910s) F.M. Davis Livin’ the Blues 28: I saw Aunt Hattie nude from the waist up and stared in wonder at those jiggling globes.
1999		Observer Rev. 12 Sept. 1: He bonked the girl with ‘delightful globes’ on the train.

4. a bowler hat.

1890

‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 120: ’Old on to your globe, Sir!

5. in pl., the buttocks.

1970

E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 133: The arm round her waist slid down over her hips, and his hand cupped the right cheek of her ass, his fingers parting the globes.