Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a male homosexual who solicits in lavatories .

1977

D. Powis Signs of Crime 172: Bandit A term sometimes used ironically in conjunction with other words, e.g., ‘piss-hole bandit’ – a homosexual who importunes in lavatories.

worthless, useless.

1978		S. King Stand (1990) 94: A man who can’t police his own family ain’t worth a pisshole drilled in a snowbank.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 90: I don’t know if it’s worth a pisshole in the snow, but he said he was asking me for this Magro kid.
1986		S. King It (1987) 37: Get the true facts of the matter out in front, and this maybe won’t amount to a pisshole in the snow.

1. eyes which are bloodshot, shrunken and showing signs of excess.

[1853		Bell’s Life in Sydney 12 Feb. 2/6: A nymph of the pave with eyes like two burnt holes in a blanket].
1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 144: When Larry saw me he nearly threw a fit at the state of my eyes. ‘Jesus wept. They’re like pissholes in the snow.’.
1971		Get Carter [film script] Do you know, I’d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like [...] They’re still the same. Piss holes in the snow.
1977		A. Brooke Last Toke 126: ‘Eyes feel like they ’bout to pop from ma head!’ ‘Look like two piss-holes in the snow.’.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 88: Cop the eyes on it. They're like pissholes in the snow.
2013		T. Black Ringer [ebook] n.p.: I see two watery-green eyes. What my Old Boy would say were two piss-holes in the snow.
2022		Reedus & Bill Ravaged 114: Sid’s eyes ignite like two piss holes in the snow.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

2004		L. Welsh Cutting Room 159: She [...] leaned forward, just the two of us now, no street, no noise, only Rita’s pisshole-in-the-snow pupils piercing me.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 395: His wee pish-hole-in-the-snaw eyes set in a white bulbous face.