torpedo n.2
1. its shape.
(a) (US) a pointed woman’s shoe.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘The Water Cure’ in Gullible’s Travels 169: He blushed and the Wife sunk my shin with a patent-leather torpedo. |
(b) a fat marijuana cigarette.
| cited in Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink (1986). | |
| Strange Peaches 207: Using five or six cigarette papers, Buster was rolling an Austin Torpedo. |
(c) (US teen) a large breast.
| Sweet Ride 89: ‘Aw,’ Mousie said [...] angrily brushing sand out from between her torpedoes. | |
| Sweetwater Gunslinger 201 (1990) 62: You’ve also got great torpedoes. |
(d) (drugs) a cigarette made of crack cocaine and marijuana.
| Thinner (1986) 76: Houston was bombing his brain with big white torpedoes on a regular basis. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 21: Torpedo — Marijuana and crack. |
(e) (US) a large, well-filled sandwich.
| Blue Highways 329: I ate a grinder — elsewhere called a hero, hoagie, poorboy, submarine, sub, torpedo, Italian. |
(f) (US teen) a penis that is wide at the base but grows narrower as it reaches the head.
| [ | ![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 30 Nov. 8/3: ‘Gus was showing us how his torpedo worked [...] He can blow up anything with it.’ Then ma took her into the back room and spanked her mighty hard]. |
 | OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 torpedo n. a male penis which is wide at the base and gradually becomes skinnier as you move toward the head. |
(g) a large cigar.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | All the Colours 56: Lyons stopped to light a torpedo [...] A great white cloud plumed skywards. |
2. its ‘explosiveness’.
(a) (US) a thug, a hoodlum, the ‘weapon’ used by a gang boss and sent out to destroy enemies.
| It’s a Racket! 241: torpedo — A professional gunman or bomb tosser. | |
| ‘Revolt of the Damned’ in Double-Action Gang June 🌐 Any torpedo who had killed Rod Northup would sooner or later brag about it. | |
| Really the Blues 101: He was Louie the Wop’s brother; until he made his exit he was head torpedo for the mob. | |
| Augie March (1996) 81: Sluggers and bouncers, punks with ambition to become torpedoes. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Crust on its Uppers 133: The torpedo who was driving smelled strongly of weinbrand. | |
| Last Detail 56: You pop in here [...] with two torpedoes, what do I think? I’m ready to have a heart attack. | |
| Good Words 282: Torpedo [...] A gang killer, a hit man, a thug. | |
| Homeboy 97: I tapped Truck Infante for one of his teamster torpedoes. | |
| Cutty, One Rock (2005) 14: An ugly little torpedo named Joseph ‘Joe Jelly’ Giorelli. |
(b) a drink containing chloral hydrate.
| Rough Stuff 105: My intention had been to shoot this sucker with a torpedo (dose of chloral). |
In compounds
(orig. milit.) extremely strong, home-distilled liquor.
| Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 23 Sept. 7/1: Groups of drinkers all get drunk off one bottle of ‘plonk’ or ‘bombo’. They drink half the bottle of wine and refill it with ‘torpedo juice’. | |
| ‘Talking Under Water: Speech in Submarines’ in AS XXIII:1 38: torpedo juice. The alcohol used as fuel in a steam-driven torpedo; by extension, the term is used to refer to any alcohol or alcoholic beverage. | |
| (con. 1940s) Sowers of the Wind 189: We’ll just have a quiet little party [...] with some Jap whisky and a few bottles of torpedo-juice. | |
| Hero Ship 59: What about that torpedo juice Foghorn makes? | |
| (con. WWII) Undercover 27: I would [...] bring back a five-gallon tin of 200-proof torpedo alcohol together with a few cans of grapefruit juice. So popular were these ‘torpedo cocktails’ that [etc]. | |
| [bk title] Torpedo Juice. |