Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(gay) a large scrotum.

1941		G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 19: grand bag (n.): A large scrotum.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.

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1. a heterosexual woman who occupies pride of place in a homosexual male coterie.

1970

J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV 1–2 57: grand duchess n 1: Female heterosexual who has been accepted into the confidence of male homosexuals and enjoys their trust and a certain degree of prestige within the group.

2. an experienced, older, sophisticated homosexual man.

1970

J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV 1 01502 57: grand duchess n [...] 2: Male homosexual regarded as a leader within a group of male homosexuals.

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see grand quay under quay n.

simultaneous vomiting and defecation.

2000

N. Griffiths Grits 317: Imagine shittin an spewin at the same time [...] the grand slam.

used of various fashionable promenading areas of London, e.g. Rotten Row or the Broad Walk in Hyde Park, or Bond Street, W1.

1821		W.T. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry I iv: We’ll start first to the show shop of the metropolis, Hyde Park! – promenade it down the grand strut.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 16: Grand strut – Rotten Row, Bond Street.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.

(US black) a large amount of (stolen) money.

1968		‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2.
1972		O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 117: The white boy who owned the place kept grand theft dough in a cracker box in the rear of the joint.

a highwayman.

1834

(con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 165: We are now degenerated from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak.

to put on airs.

1857		Paul Pry (London 15 Aug. n.p.: Frank Pastor, the great American equestrian, who is at liberty to ‘accept engagements,’ doing the grand at the Rotundo, Blackfriars- road .
a.1877		G. Leybourne [perf.] ‘The Big Heavy Swell of the Sea’ 🎵 When doing the Grand to the strains of the band / Escorted by girls two or three.
1886		Sporting Times 19 June 1/1: You can swagger at Ascot and do the grand, / And lose more than you’re able to pay.
1892		Albert Chevalier ‘Wot Cher!’ 🎵 My Old Dutch knows ’ow to do the grand, First she bows, and then she waves ’er ’and, Calling out we’re goin’ for a blow!
1912		Collins & Burley [perf. Harry Champion] ‘Dick, Dick, with your walking stick’ 🎵 To make me look a masher, and to try and do the grand / A walking stick I always like to carry in my hand.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 5 June 4/2: What price Rusty doing the grand with two tarts Saturday night .