pisshole, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pisshole n.

1. the vagina.

1950

in V. Randolph Pissing in the Snow (1988) 113: Whoo-ee, he stuck the glory-pole up my piss-hole, and squirted salvation all over my ass-hole.

2. a urinal, a lavatory.

1958		F. Norman Bang To Rights 49: They have got to find [...] a nick where they’ll let us use their piss hole.
1969		Harper’s Mag. CCXXXIX 88: The ladies’ bathhouse and pisshole is thirty paces into those woods, and the men’s bathhouse and pisshole’s behind the car.
1970		D. Mitchell Thumb Tripping (1971) 144: The ladies’ bath-house and piss-hole.
1988		J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 86: Why don’t you go into the pisshole for a shave?
1990		J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 49: Anyway, now I’m going to try and have a kip in the pisshole.
1998		M. Argueta Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District 12: In this chocolate shack, a bedroom-kitchen-pisshole-dining room, and next to a miserable radio that gives news in a whisper.
2008		G. Pelecanos Way Home (2009) 229: The bolted-down cot. The steel shitter and pisshole.

3. any very dirty or unpleasant house, room or place.

1969		Epoch (Cornell U.) XIX-XX 76: No matter how far I travel in this black humid pisshole of a tunnel, I am still a mile from the exit.
1970		G.F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 86: This piss-hole of a third-rate club.
1976		P. Theroux Family Arsenal 276: Not this piss-hole. I never drink here.
1977		J. Langone Life at the Bottom 6: The Navy sent me up to Kiska during the war and what a pisshole that was.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 211: You were going to book me, you’d have took me down to city or county jail, not this pisshole.
1995		P.A. Bonds Savage 148: And it was busy formulating plans for leaving this pisshole of a country.
2004		D.T. Horsely Conquistador 189: Why would anyone want to live in such a God-forsaken pisshole?
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 389: The baby’s shouting. Well it would be. It’s taken one look at this pisshole and it’s wanting to get back inside where it came from.

4. the urethra, thus the whole penis (see cite 2012).

1998		C. Quuen Leather Daddy 38: Jack thrust his cock near enough to the cage bars that I could just get to the pisshole with my tongue.
2000		T. Wolf Words Made Flesh 90: He leaned forwards and kissed the fleshy knob at the end, sliding the tip of his tongue into the mouth of the pisshole.
2004		G. Wharton Love Under Foot 72: I was whacking his foreskin up and down his juicy end, uncovering his pisshole and feeling out his most sensitive areas.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 228: Penises [...] Wrinkled wee piss-holes.

In compounds

pisshole bandit (n.) [-bandit sfx (2)]

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.

In phrases

not worth a pisshole in the snow

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.

pissholes in the snow (n.)

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.

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.