sluice v.
to have sexual intercourse.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Winter’s Tale i ii: Many a man there is [...] holds his wife by the arm, That little thinks she has been sluic’d in’s absence, And his pond fish’d by his next neghbour. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to take a hearty drink.
| Life and Character of Moll King 12: I shall catch her at Maddox’s Gin-Ken, sluicing her Gob by the Tinney. | |
| ‘A Cant Song’ Muses Delight 177: And away we went to the ken boozie. / As there we sat yaffling and sluicing our gobs, / She tipt me the gum very cleanly. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Sluice your Gob. Take a hearty drink. | |
| Sporting Mag. Feb. VII 283/2: I never sluice my chops / With broths, or soups, or such like slops. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796 Grose]. | |
| Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 35: And when we well had sluic’d our gobs. | |
| Tom and Jerry II i: With all my heart, only let me sluice my whistle first. | |
| Satirist (London) 6 May 147/1: So we pikes it away for The Chequers, / And calls for the landlord with glee / ‘Here, we wants to be sluicing our gobs!’. | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open [as cit. 1835]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Vocabulum 98: Well, Bell, here’s the bingo—sluice your gob! But who was the cull that peached ? | |
| Vanity Fair (NY) 9 Nov. 216: Take all my bob culls and my bené morts. / I’d hold high revel, sluice my gob alway. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 34/1: I ‘slung’ him a shilling to ‘sluice’ his ‘gob’. | |
| Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859]. | |
| ‘On the Trail’ in Sl. Dict. (1890) 42: [as cit. 1859]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Aug. 14/3: He was journeying in a coach [...] and had for a fellow-passenger a genial-souled gentleman who got off at every pub. to sluice his neck with the liquid damnation, and each time tendered the Rev. Julius a pressing invite to come and poison himself, which the latter coldly declined. | |
| VI Sl. and Its Analogues 258/2: sluice the bolt (dominoes, gob, or ivories) = to drink heartily. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He has been invited to [...] sluice his bolt, his dominoes, his ivories, or his gob. | |
 | Sth Florida Sun Sentinel (Ft Lauderdale, FL) 24 Oct. A12/5: Sluice Your Gob: Take a good long drink. |
1. to drink heartily.
| Life in London (1869) 310: A glass or two had been sluiced over the ivories of the party, which made some of them begin loudly to chaff. | |
| Tom and Jerry III iii: Here, Dusty, my prince, now then, sluice your bolt. | |
| Memoirs (trans. W. McGinn) III 76: Now it is your turn, Lapierre; come, sluice your ivories. | |
| Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: Drinking! [...] Fuddling, Swilling [...] Sucking the monkey, Sluicing the ivories, etc. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. 236: ‘Sluicing one’s bolt’ drinking. |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Punch lxxxii 185 2: I never heard of him sluicing his ivories with what you call S. & B. | |
| VI Sl. and Its Analogues 258/2: sluice the bolt (dominoes, gob, or ivories) = to drink heartily. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 76: Sluice your Ivories, take a drink. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He has been invited to [...] sluice his bolt, his dominoes, his ivories, or his gob. |
2. to ply with drink.
| Life in London (1869) 217: Tom is sluicing the ivory of some of the unfortunate heroines with blue ruin. |
to drink heartily.
| Tom and Jerry II vi: Sluice your dominoes – vill you? | |
| Morn. Chron. (London) 27 Apr. 4/3: He has received an invitation to meet his antagonist [...] and will no doubt ‘sluice his dominoes’ to their future good fellowship. | |
| Oberserver 5 June 1/3: The dust [...] stuck in his teeth [...] he could not do better than ‘sluice his dominoes’ ina dyke. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight. |