spit n.3
a cigarette; a puff of a cigarette.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Joyful Condemned 213: All the other screws are having a smoke and a spit in the staff room. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | (con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 157: Some of them had bits of cigarettes, and asked us if we would like a ‘spit’. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
see separate entry.
In compounds
see separate entries.
a termagant, one who has a very short temper.
 | Owd Bob 51: Eh, but art’ a tearin’ spit-cat surely! | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘As Easy as A.B.C.’ in Diversity of Creatures (1917) 11: There’s a nice little spit-kitten for you! |
1. the vagina.
| Mercurius Fumigosus 11 9 Aug. 102: They being allarum’d by the Shepherd, were forced to thrust their spit-fire into a hedge. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 179: Mallier, m. The female pudendum; ‘the spit-fire’. |
2. a prostitute.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Cujo (1982) 100: You suppose you can screw like one of those spitfires? Like one of those little Mexican spitfires? |
see under machine n.
(gay) anal intercourse or penetration of the anus by the fingers or fist where the only lubricant is spit.
| ‘Roommate’ 🌐 He wasn’t using anything for lubrication but spit, but I figured if he could take a spit fuck, so could I...even if his meat was a hell of a lot bigger than mine, and mine was a virgin hole. | |
| Sex-Lexis 🌐 spit-fuck Penetration of the anus with a penis, finger, or fist lubricated, presumably, with spit (but could be any other lubricant). |
(US) a general term of abuse.
| Harder They Fall (1971) 208: Aah, go shove yourself, spithead. |
regurgitated methadone.
| Underground 144: Spit meth? Some of the people on methadone want the stronger stuff and some of the people get a taste for methadone, so the people with methadone puke it back up and sell it. That’s spit meth. |
In phrases
to beat severely.
| Corruption Officer [ebook] Ch. 8: I just could not grasp [...] that they would have me talk to the inmate instead of handcuffing him to a pole and beating the spit out of him. |
to kiss.
| ‘Giving’ at Buffygiles.com 17 Oct. 🌐 There are a lot of things I considered a matter of course only two days ago. Like that you don’t exchange spit with a ‘friend’ when you’re dating someone. | |
| ‘Sensuous Torture’ Adult DVD Reviews 🌐 Caressa opts to make nice and exchange spit with Jill instead. |
(US) to exchange information.
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 71: He’s now Fox secutity boss. He shares spit with [union boss] Jimmy H[offa] [...] and kindred craft-union creeps. |
see under swallow v.