dangle n.
1. the penis.
[ | Tilly Touchitt 13: Such a strange, long, lolloping dangle-dumdee]. | |
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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.
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. |