Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a very attractive man or (usu.) woman.

1962

‘Ed Lacy’ Freeloaders 22: I don’t buy the bit that every mademoiselle is automatically a sexboat because she’s French.

a very attractive man or (usu.) woman.

1963		L. Deighton Horse under Water 98: I’ve got the photo of your secretarial sex-bomb.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 164: Living next door in the double tenement was a sex bomb named Jean.
1984		J. McNamara First Directive (1985) 159: Sometimes she was [...] the mother and hausfrau, at other times the sex bomb.
1999		Guardian Rev. 11 June 7: He unleashed the first of Italy’s sex-bomb actresses.
2006		Indep. Rev. 10 Feb. 22: Music-hall songs delivered by such sex bombs as Two-Ton Tessie O’Shea.
2019		A. Parks February’s Son 80: [of a man] ‘Thomson! You’ve finally realised you’re working with a sex bomb?’.

see box n.¹ (1a)

(US) a sexual game played between two people (of the same or opposite sex) in which each partner tries to make the other reach orgasm first; thus sex fighter, a participant in such a game.

1997–2002

Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 sex fight A sexual game played between two persons. A sexual play in which each sexual partner tries to make his/her opponent come first. Sex fight can be played between members of the opposite or the same sex [...] sex fighter a man or a woman who likes to play the sex fight game.

(US) a woman, esp. a film star (and latterly rock star), who is viewed as sexually provocative.

1972		P. Evans [bk title] Bardot — Eternal Sex Goddess.
1973		C. Cussler Mediterranean Caper/Mayday! (1985) 173: Behaving like schoolboys whose dormitory had just been invaded by a box office sex queen.
1979		Stage (London) 27 Sept. 4/5: The Raymond revuebar [...] is now presenting American sex queen Marilyn Chambers live on stage.
1983		Stage (London) 13 Oct. 10/5: Also on offer will be bra which once adorned the [...] figure of sex queen Fiona Richmond.
1998		Stage (London) 30 July 21/3: The Scandinavian sex goddess still boasts the gorgeous blond and tanned looks.
2000		Guardian 9 Jun. 🌐 And having played almost every role imaginable – from sex-goddess to vamp to femme fatale to goddess-of-sex – she is now astonishing us afresh by turning her back on fame.

(US) anywhere where sex is on sale.

2003

H. Fleiss in Guardian 13 Sept. 🌐 I remember some girls who approached me after working for illegal sex houses, ‘pussy factories’.

(US) a sexually provocative or available person.

1932		J.L. Kuethe ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 336: sex job—a woman who is easily possessed.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1977		Maledicta 1 Summer 17: If she is willing, she has hot pants, she’s a sex job and will melt the fat off your bones (Trinidadian).

a young woman with overt sex-appeal.

1958		Wash. Post and Times Herald 1 Aug. D8/1: The rather lavish production offers the little French ‘sex kitten’ such starry support as Charles Boyer.
1962		Mersey Beat 1–15 Nov. n.p.: Brigitte Bardot [...] turns her erstwhile ‘sex-kitten’ characterisation into a powerful, dramatic and suspenseful tour de force.
1971		N. Armfelt Catching Up 181: For seven days [...] Carner kept clear of his sex-kitten.
1981		Stage (London) 2 Apr. 23/6: Corne’s Amneris was an interesting interpretation, very much the spoilt sex kitten.
1984		Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 42: [A] very much fancied sex kitten.
1999		Guardian Guide 3–9 July 27: Other acts include an ex-East Ender sex kitten.
2000		Indep. Rev. 14 Feb. 8: From sweet kid to sex kitten.

(US) flashing lights on a police vehicle.

2006		Urban Dict. 20 Sept. 🌐 sex lights Two words said together when a cops lights are on and flashing...’cause someone is gettin fucked. This is usually yelled to alert others of the popos presence.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 8: Then blue lights flashed off the weathered exterior of the SpeeDee Mart. ‘Ah shit, it’s the sex lights,’ Kelvin said. [...] ‘Sex lights?’ the sweaty brother said. ‘Yeah, cuz when you see them, you’re fucked’.

1. a promiscuous, sexually eager woman.

1954		B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 26: She thought she was smart, Hortense, like she was some kind of sex machine.
1963		M. Spillane Return of the Hood 20: Big Primo Stipetto didn’t like his sex machines playing around in other back yards.

2. a sexually virile man, a womanizer.

1963		(con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 18: The poor girl’s Errol Flynn [...] The old sex machine.
1970		James Brown ‘Sex Machine’ 🎵 Get up, get on up / Get up, get on up / Stay on the scene, like a sex machine.
1983		S. King Christine 195: Sure, I’m a smoothie [...] What James Brown used to call ‘a sex machine’.
1999		Guardian Guide 2–8 Oct. 18: Who’s the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
2001		J. Baker Shooting in the Dark (2002) 144: He’s a brilliant actor, he’s a sex machine, multi-millionaire.

(N.Z.) a tall, attractive, and prob. promiscuous, man.

1971

N. Armfelt Catching Up 150: Considering what a sex-pole he is, Carner has played it pretty cool.

1. one who is obsessed with sex; a promiscuous woman.

1955		W. White ‘Wayne University Sl.’ AS XXX:4 302: nymph; pig; sexpot, n. Woman of loose morals.
1963		B. Naughton Alfie II iv: You’re a right little sex-pot, ain’t you.
1969		C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 157: He took the tall mini-skirted, naked-looking, hot-skinned, cold sex pot by the elbow and marched her toward the door.
1989		M. Amis London Fields 260: You’re not a Sexpot. Not dizzy enough.
1996		(con. 1970) G. Moxley Danti-Dan in McGuinness Dazzling Dark (1996) II v: That Cactus is turning into a right little sex pot, isn’t she?
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 204: I [...] have always been very suspicious of the so-called dumb, pouting sexpot.
2007		R. Milward Apples (2023) 11: Dan was a sexpot.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 152: She played soon-to-die sexpots in monster films.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 239: [A] sexpot in her thirties [...] A luscious piece of homework whom Tiger responded to like a firm young cub.

2. a very attractive man or (usu.) woman; also attrib.

1958		E. Dundy Dud Avocado (1960) 164: She looked like such a voluptuous sexpot, with her blond hair falling all over her face.
1963		B. Hecht Gaily, Gaily 127: The male sex-pot, Lou Tellegan.
1965		T. Wolfe ‘The Girl of the Year’ Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 205: None of your old idea of sexpots, prima donnas, romantic tragediennes.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 91: A gigantic mirrored sphere [...] spraying pastel jewels of light on sexpots in bikinis.
1985		J. Morrison Share House Blues 45: ‘All those teen-age sexpots, hot from skating, holding hands in the Couples Only,’ says Marcus, nostalgically.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 277: She [...] licked her bruised chops with a sexpot sneer.
1990		Stage (London) 16 Aug. 67/1: Glamorous sexpot [...] back to her first love the stage.
1999		Guardian Rev. 25 June 19: The diktat that female rappers must be size 10 sexpots.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Culture 27 Feb. 2: Bardot became the sexpot of the young world.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 124: Such a popsy, such fun, such a sexpot.

see sex goddess

(US) a holding cell used to confine prostitutes or homosexuals.

1963

J. Rechy City of Night 99: Miss Destiny ends up in the sex tank.

(US) a flashy car, esp. as owned by a pimp.

1986		Chapman NDAS.
1994		C. Reynolds Rage 265: It was a great sex wagon, he told himself. But then he got the bright idea of driving it down to Las Vegas.
2004		‘Cyberchrome’ at www.purlgurl.net 🌐 ‘After all the work we put into that sex wagon of yours, I just wanted to be sure you brought her home in one piece. Your car that is,’ grinning, dad adds.

one who is exceptionally sexually attractive; usu. of a woman.

2001

J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 109: Tina was sex-on-a-stick, so he had to be vigilant.

(orig. US) a general phr. of satisfaction, praise, delight, e.g. that movie – sex with Jesus.

2002

Maximum Rocknroll n.p.: What’s Better Than Sex With Jesus? Nothing!