Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(W.I.) to find it hard to make enough money to live, to subsist, to suffer great hardship.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

to masturbate.

2000

Sex-Lexis 🌐.

to masturbate.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 116: mother and [her] four children (kwn NYC, black gay sl, late ’60s) the masturbator’s best girl friend – his hand: the thumb is the mother to the four fingers.
2000		Sex-Lexis 🌐.
2005		‘Dave and Julia’ at asstr.org 🌐 Dave was growing more frustrated. Dates with ‘Ma Thumb and her four daughters’ had given way to browsing the internet.