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(W.I.) to perform oral sex.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Official Dancehall Dict. 6: Bow (to bow) to indulge in oral sex. |
In compounds
(W.I.) a homo- or heterosexual man who in indulges in oral sex, whether fellatio or cunnilingus.
| Official Dancehall Dict. 6: Bow-cat a man who indulges in fellatio. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian G2 3 Dec. 4: Hold up yuh hand if yuh nuh suck pussy, yuh nuh bowcat. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(US black) to act subserviently, to acknowledge one’s inferiority.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 bow down Definition: to submit or give in to another individual or group of individuals with which one is involved in any kind of spoken or unspoken competition in lue [sic] of or in direct recognition of his or their obvious or otherwise mental or physical superiority Example: Damn nigga, you fuckin’ with DOLEMITE!!!...you betta bow down!!! | |
| Adventures 31: But the respect those [graffiti-making] cats got—oh man! [...] They had to be, dangerous like it was. You couldn’t help but bow down for what it took to be out there. |
(US gay) to leave, esp. for one’s own benefit.
| Queens’ Vernacular 36: bow low to leave for one’s own advantage, to depart from a gathering ‘Get ready to bow low; here come the queen who hates your crown.’. |
see separate entries.
(US) to take heroin.
| ‘See Him Die’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 103: Show me a guy’s bowing to the White God and I break his ass for him. |