salad, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

salad n.

1. (US) money.

1945

R.L. Bellem ‘Coffin for a Coward’ in Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 George sank a scad of salad in your new production and he might drop the whole wad if the Hays office decided to blackball you.

2. (US drugs) a mixture of different varieties of cannabis.

1996		UGK ‘Good Stuff’ 🎵 Got the drink and the salad.
2000		‘Stoner Dict.’ on Lil’ Bastard’s House of Heaven 🌐 Salad – Weed.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

salad dodger (n.)

a fat person.

1999		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 98 Oct. 24: salad dodgereuph. A contumelious epithet for a fat bastard. One who at a buffet sidesteps the lettuce and celery and heads straight for the pork pies.
2001		P. Meditzy ‘A Day In The Life Of...’ 29 Apr. 🌐 Anyway I get to the night club. There are a few ‘swamp donkeys’ and ‘salad dodgers’ hanging around including a few others that looked like they have been ‘ram raiding on scooters’.
2006		Daily Mail 30 Aug. 28: A ‘salad dodger’ is a person with an unhealthy diet.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 111: This fat black woman appeared [...] She was the mother of all salad dodgers.

salad oil (n.)

hair oil.

1923

J. Manchon Le Slang.

salad queen (n.) [toss salad ]

(US gay) a man who enjoys anilingus.

2003

K. Cage Gayle.

salad waggon (n.) [synon. of Fr. sl. panier à salade, lit. ‘salad basket’; so called from the iron grating or trellis that covered the rear of the original ‘baskets’, horse-drawn carts in which prisoners were transported]

a police van.

1953

B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 148: ‘You four,’ said Monti to the prisoners, ‘to the salad waggon.’ They were escorted to the Black Maria.

In phrases

buy a salad (v.)

(W.I.) to be rendered stupid.

1995

Francis-Jackson Official Dancehall Dict. 46: Salad (especially of sport) be made to look foolish; to be taken in: u. yuh buy a salad/you’re stuck with a lemon.

eat salad (v.)

to indulge in anilingus.

2007

C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 16: ‘Hear you ate a lot of salad in there [i.e. prison]’ [...] ‘He means ass-eating,’ I said.

tossed salad (n.) [toss salad ]

(gay) anilingus and anal intercourse.

1999

Gaymart.com Queer Sl. in the Gay 90s 🌐 Tossed Salad – Anilingus and rimming.

toss salad (v.) (also toss a salad, toss someone’s salad, toss some salad) [? the general mixing of flesh and embellishments]

(US prison) to engage in anilingus, seen by otherwise heterosexual participants as a ‘clean’ non-homosexual form of quick and easy gratification.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 172: to lick or suck anus [...] toss a salad.
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Toss salad (verb) To lick someone’s anus.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 tossing salad Definition: prison term for rectal stimulation by the tongue. Example: I got my salad tossed last night!
2000		Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Tossing Salad: Stronger, older, inmate forcing a weaker, newer prisoner to lick his anus.
2001		Gay Video Dad Behind Closed Doors 🌐 Rev. of Natural Instinct: Cummings and Grand flip-flop so Grand can toss some salad and then use his meat stick to poke at Cummings’ hot ass.
2002		cumcatcher posting at Thug’s Journal 13 July 🌐 Hey, yo nigga. I gonna toss yo salad! You like dat?? Gonna swallow that chocolate seed biatch!!! I catch dat cream and spit it back in yo mouff.
2015		‘Chelsea G. Summers’ in Vice 10 June 🌐 Nicki Minaj's ‘Anaconda’ has the rapper bragging that ‘He toss my salad like his name Romaine’.

In exclamations

toss my salad!

(US) an insulting excl.

1997–2002

Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 toss my salad (verb, masculine) [...] used as an insult, ‘Toss my salad!’, kind of like ‘Kiss my ass!’.