ranger n.
1. the penis.
Sodom III i: Great Bolloxinian, no. / Your shanker Ranger & your great Bubo / Swell to your heart, your nodes and vicers stink, / All all are past one Cure or dyet drink. | (attrib.)||
[author pseudonym] Covent Garden Jester. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. a prostitute.
Bartholomew Fair IV v: O, you are a sweet ranger! and look well to your walks. | ||
Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 4/1: A young woman [...] commonly called the Manhattan Island ranger. | ||
Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 22 Nov. n.p.: Dolly, one of the Milk street rangers [...] Reform, or you will hear from me again. |
3. (Aus.) a bushranger.
Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jul. 13/2: [T]he A.G. was a passenger by the coach which was stuck up by Day, the bushranger, near Hartley. At the trial of the ’ranger at Bathurst, Bayley, as Attorney-General, prosecuted for the Crown, and also gave evidence. |