acorn n.2
1. (US) the head.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Hand-made Fables 45: He got it into the Acorn that each Tract of Ground [...] was operated as a Gift Enterprise. |
2. (US gay) the glans penis.
| Queens’ Vernacular 104: glans penis; the acorn-like bulb forming the uppermost end of the penis [...] acorn. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. of Obscenity etc. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US) a thimble-rigger n. (1), operating a fixed ‘game of chance’ in which an acorn is secreted under one of three upturned cups, the cups are switched around by the operator and the players bet on which one is the container.
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 16 July n.p.: There was the ‘thimble rigger’ in all his glory [...] the brother of an ex-justice was there and one of the ‘acorn boys’ cocked his leg for him. |
1. (US) of humans and animals, a runt, a weakling.
| in DARE. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
| Down in the Holler 222: acorn calf: n. A runt, a poor specimen, a weakling. Applied to human beings as well as to cattle. |
2. (US gay, west) an effeminate or homosexual man.
 | ‘‘Western frontier gay slang’ on Twitter 2 Mar. 🌐 ‘acorn calf’ [...] a cowboy perceived as femme. |
1. (US) an uncouth rural person.
| ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:i 68: acorn-cracker, n. Uncouth countryman. | |
| Amer. Thes. Sl. §391.3: Rustic; Bumpkin, Acorn cracker. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| film review at www.imdb.com 🌐 The acorn-cracker Humour on the one side balance [sic] with the hard life-deal of breezy Villagers on the second side. |