snake n.3
the penis.
 | ‘Letter from a Missionary Bawd’ in Carpenter Verse in English from Tudor & Stuart Eng. (2003) 426: Till one night’s ramble, bya sad mistake, / The Nymph was stung by Arran’s poison’d snake. | |
| Apollo’s feast: or, Wits entertainment 9: Presently after the English man’s snake grew warm, and crawl’d up the Woman’s Belly, the moving of the bed awakened the Husband. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 90: The taller the bottle the longer the snake / The taller the bimbo / The more she can take. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dimboola (2000) 87: astrid: He’s nice. Always showing me his pet lizard. mutton: Not to mention his carpet snake. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Picture Palace 93: She kissed my snake, and I [...] pushed her nice little thighs against my ears like I wanted to drown. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 362: Snake is low slang for the penis, sometimes also referred to as a one-eyed snake. | |
| Strip Tease 66: ‘With or without the snake?’ ‘Without [...] Tell her I’ve got one of my own.’. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 252: Had the pistol tucked in his drawers, right up alongside his snake. |
In compounds
(US gay) a fellator.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
the vagina.
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 48: I’d have to be pretty shicker to negotiate a coo-ee up the old snake gully. |
1. (US gay) a bar frequented by homosexuals.
| Homosexual in America 112: I had been invited to a gay bar that had been nicknamed the snake pit. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 186: snake pit 1. den of iniquity 2. dingy, dim-lit gay bar where the brazen clientele frighten straight gawkers. |
2. (US) the vagina.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 193: snake-pit (Vulg.) 1. The Vagina. | |
| Cunning Linguist (1973) 98: [T]he Russian firewater inundated the very inner recesses of her angelic and heavenly snake pit. |
3. (US) a prison.
| Riot (1967) 150: Been in and out of this snakepit for twenty-two years. | |
| (con. 1949) Boomers 179: Maggie talked [...] about the awful treatment of mental patients in ‘Snake Pit’. |
4. a ‘red–light’ area.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 193: snake-pit (Vulg.) [...] A red-Light District. |
5. (also snake ranch) a brothel.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 193: snake-pit (Vulg.) [...] 2. A House of Prostitution. | |
| Maledicta IX 148: The compilers ought to have looked farther afield and found: […] snake pit, snake ranch. |
6. (US) a psychiatric institution.
| Onion Field 15: Ian [...] waited for Art Petoyan, who was an intern in Psychiatric Admitting. [...] ‘Welcome to the snakepit, gentlemen’. |
In phrases
1. to masturbate.
| Sex-Lexis 🌐. |
2. to urinate.
| DSUE (8th edn) 98/2: since ca. 1925–45. |