midnight adj.
(US) of people, black.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Down in Tennessee 112: ‘Nigger kentries, Mr. Midnight,’ replied Tom promptly. | |
| ‘Negro English’ in Anglia VII 262: Er little chunk er midnight = a coal-black negro. | |
| in TAD Lex. 117: [caption of panel showing two black women]: Midnight Blondes. | |
 | Norm & Ahmed (1973) 17: You haven’t got a really dark skin, have you? [...] they’d never call you ‘Mr. Midnight,’ would they? |
In compounds
(US gay) a black man’s penis.
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Gay (S)language. |
(US gay) a white homosexual man who prefers black partners.
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Gay (S)language. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US short order) coffee.
| Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Coffee: ‘A midnight alarm’. |
1. (US) a male prostitute, esp. when posing as a ‘cowboy’.
| Queens’ Vernacular 136: A model acting out the cowboy theme is a midnight cowboy. | |
| CB Slanguage. | |
| Maledicta III:2 223: Five and two (five pounds or dollars for the services of a UK rent boy or US hustling midnight cowboy, plus two for the room) is pre-inflationary. | |
| Maledicta IX 144: They joke about themselves as crack salesmen, dealers in sporting goods, Circus cowboys (U.S. midnight cowboys), and faggot workers. |
2. (Aus.) a man who goes to a male prostitute.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Day of the Dog 18: Floyd’s cousin has become a homosexual and was getting two hundred dollars a go from old midnight cowboys in the Hay Street mall. |
(Aus. prison) the sudden night-time transfer of a convict.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Midnight Express. Sudden transfer of a prisoner at night [...] Midnight mystery tour. A transfer at night. |
(drugs) opium.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 39: burn the midnight oil To smoke opium. | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 312: midnight oil. Opium. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore 110: Midnight oil – Opium or its derivatives. Midnight-oil burner – A smoker-addict of the opium pipe. Midnight oil, burning the – Addicted to opium. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 15: Midnight oil — Opium. |
(US gang) a prostitute hired by a group of young boys; thus the act of group sex.
| Duke 61: It was the Midnight Revue. Everybody plays jam in that park, gets their trim. We got on her. Seven of us. | |
| Monkey On My Back (1954) 107: His sexual activity had begun at the age of thirteen, when, with a group of other boys he had ‘pulled a Midnight Revue.’ [...] It was like this. A whole gang of guys got together and each one chipped in maybe a quarter or half a buck and they hired a trim for the night. Then each guy took turns while the others watched. | |
| Young and Violent 24: There’ll be a midnight revue on Tuesday [...] it’ll cost you two skins. | |
| Girls on the Rampage 116: At the very bottom of the scale [of prostitution] are the girls who make themselves available for ‘line-ups’ or ‘Midnight Revues’ favored by the roughest of the teen-age gangs. |
(Aus. prison) the beating of a prisoner by officers.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Midnight talk. 1. Summary ‘justice’, ie a thrashing from correctional staff. |