dangle n.
1. the penis.
[ | ![]() | Tilly Touchitt 13: Such a strange, long, lolloping dangle-dumdee]. |
![]() | On the Road 44: On the wall was a nude drawing of Dean, huge dangle and all. | |
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![]() | Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 60: Thought I tasted something very strange on his straining dangle. | East in|
![]() | (ref. to WWI) DSUE (8th edn) 290/2: dangle-parade. A ‘short-arm’ inspection: NZ soldiers’: WWI. | |
![]() | Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 116: I’m channelled up the escalator still holding my dangle. | West in|
![]() | Guardian G2 5 July 8: Of all the pleasures some may find in the male dangle, I venture that the view is not among them. |
2. (US) an impotent man.
![]() | The Same Old Grind 201: ♣Who was you with? Some old dangle who can’t get it up?’. |
In compounds
(US gay) one who wears clothes that deliberately emphasize the penis, or who exposes the genitals.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 60: dangle queen 1. gay exhibitionist. ‘Johnny was a dangle queen; he used to get busted for showing his schwantz to little old ladies in the vestibule.’ .. 2. man who wears tight trousers in order to show off his crotch contours. | |
![]() | Gay (S)language 11: Dangle queen—gay who wears tight pants or exposes himself completely. |
In phrases
(US campus) of the penis, flaccid; of a person, sexually unexcited.
![]() | Current Sl. V:4. |