Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cookie n.1

[fig. uses of SE cookie, biscuit]

1. the vagina, thus sexual intercourse.

[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
Thompson & Guernsey ‘Papa Wants a Cookie’ 🎵 Papa wants a cookie, papa needs a cookie / Papa’s gonna get it somehow. / [...] / Papa wants loving, Papa wants loving / Papa wants loving right now, now, now.
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 57: the female sex organ [...] cookie.
[US](con. WWII) T. Sanchez Hollywoodland (1981) 58: ‘If you can’t get a boner, I’ll let you cop a feel of my cookie.’ [...] ‘C’mon, civvie, my cookie’s getting mushy!’.
[US]J. Stahl Pain Killers 199: Do you cover me with the sheet and then move the hole till it’s right over my cookie?
[US]G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 23: Hood booga - any low self-esteem female in any hood that is on welfare with a bunch of kids [...] that will give up the cookie to any City employee due to the fact that he has benefits.
[US]T. Pluck ‘Big Snip’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 19: [of a dog] If it gets dark red like her cookie, bring her in.

2. (orig. US, also cooky) a man (or woman), often with a qualifying adj., e.g. smart cookie

[US]C.E. Piesbergen Overseas with an Aero Squadron 61: Back Home — [...] That the ‘Sweet Cookie’ will be waiting still.
[US]Ade Hand-made Fables 96: I have seen countless hordes of first-time Cookies going through the deadly Routine.
[US]W.W. McKenna ‘Heat from Texas’ in Spicy Detective Stories Nov. 🌐 Grab a couple of my ties and we’ll wrap this cookie up.
[US]N. Davis ‘Don’t Give Your Right Name’ in Goulart (1967) 5: You’re one of them cookies, are you?
[US]M. Spillane One Lonely Night 131: When that girl comes back she be one mad cookie, you bet!
[UK]H. Livings Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: You’re my prisoner, cookie.
[UK]P. Theroux Picture Palace 64: What’s wrong, cookie? he asked gently.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 5: space cookie – person who is out of touch.
[SA]Sun. Times (S. Afr.) 27 Jan. 20: She’s a tough little cookie.
[Aus]L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] She seemed like a pretty switched-on old cookie.

3. (also shop cookie) an attractive woman.

[US]Collier’s 6 Mar. 42/3: That girl friend of yours is a cookie [DA].
[US]J. Archibald ‘Dog Collared’ in Popular Detective Oct. 🌐 I’m goin’ down and arrest this Kavyar cookie.
[US]R.L. Bellem ‘Latin Blood’ in Speed Detective Aug. 🌐 You could have cooled the guy because he was beating your time to this cookie.
[US]S. Lewis World So Wide 172: Nowdays he usually called Olivia ‘Sister’, ‘Cookie’ or ‘Helena Troy’.
[US]F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 34: That cool cookie, had a head on her shoulders.
[US]J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 152: She’s a real shop cookie, this one [...] she was his number-one piece.
[US]J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 137: Let’s get outa here, Marty, before I go bonzo and rent me a pair of skates and go down in flames the first trip around the floor chasing some coked-out cookie in cutoffs!
[Aus]S. Maloney Big Ask 73: My little brother Rodney did the dirty on her, shot through with a new cookie.
[US]Mad mag. July 41: Hey, cookie, [...] have some class.
[US]L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘Hey, cookie [...] What say you and I go back to my hotel for a private dance?’.

4. (US) a close friend.

[US]B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Where you been hiding yourself? I thought you and I were cookies.

5. (UK, Glasgow) a prostitute.

[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 251/1: Glasgow – 1934.

6. in pl., the contents of one’s stomach, lit. things that have been cooked; usu. in phrs. meaning to vomit, e.g. chuck one’s cookies, heave one’s cookies, woof one’s cookies (see phrs. below).

[US]P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: it gripes my cookies . . . disgusts me.
[US]L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 161: ‘I crack my cookies every time. But I’ve learned how to do it. Now I don’t splatter my shoes’.
[US]R. Carver Stories (1985) 78: ‘e’ll drop his cookies’.
Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 chunk (one’s) cookies v 1. to vomit. (‘Don’t drink too much, or you’ll chunk your cookies.’).
[US]S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] One of Spiegelman’s lackeys blew his cookies at the sight of naked, dead and mangled bodies.

7. (US) in pl., the male or female genitalia.

Mamie Smith ‘Goin’ Crazy with the Blues’ 🎵 Once he said my apple sauce could not be beat, / And he used to like my cookies nice and sweet.
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
[US]R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 102: Sincer she evidently was a junky I knew I could get to those cookies [...] Yeah, man. Hate ’em and screw ’em Black Power!
review of Man Academy 2 at www.gayvideodad.com 24 Apr. 🌐 Michaels and Johnson tag-team Kelley’s butt, and the scene ends with milk on everyone’s cookies.

8. (US) $1.

[US]J.D. MacDonald All These Condemned (2001) 33: She put too many cookies in this layout. She’s living too high.

9. (US black) a derog. term for a black person who is seen as espousing white values to the detriment of their own background.

[US]D. Claerbaut Black Jargon in White America 61: cookie n. 1. a black person deemed disloyal to his race. [...] 2. a black person who tries to live exactly as white people do.
[US]C. Major Juba to Jive 110: Cookie n. (1950s) variant of ‘oreo’ (black on the outside, white on the inside) any black person perceived by his or her community to be guilty of racial disloyalty.

10. a good example of something, a good one.

[Ire]P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 101: She stood at the base line, stooping forward intently, racket ready-poised, I dished her up a cookie.

11. (US gay) the penis.

[US]Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 34: Penis [...] cookie.

12. (US black) in pl., in fig. uses.

(a) any form of desired object, esp. sex or money.

[US]Milner & Milner Black Players 48: Cookies are the prizes to be won in a game, and the term usually refers to money.
[US](con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 157: Fuck the foreplay. I decided to go directly for the cookies. ‘I know you were there that day’.

13. (US) a cigarette; thus cookie box n., a pack of cigarettes.

[US]L. Dills CB Slanguage 27: Cookies: cigarettes.
Lieberman & Rhodes Complete CB Hbk (2nd edn) 296: Cookie box – Pack of cigarettes.

14. (US gay) an effeminate male homosexual; thus also as a nickname or term of address.

[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 73: stereotype effeminate homosexual [...] cookie (pej.) hetero sl: ‘Yeah, some cookie asked me if he could suck my dick’.
[UK]Guardian 17 Aug. 17: He’s still outrageously camp and calls us all Cookie.

15. (US) a lump of expectorated phlegm.

[US]B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 93: Everything was punctuated with a hack or coughin’ spasm or a lung cookie flung towards the aisle.

In compounds

cookies and cream (n.)

(US black) a mixed-race person of black and white parentage.

[US]Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 cookies ’n cream Definition: half black, half white person Example: Bitch, you aint black, you just cookies n cream.
cookies-crashing (n.)

(US black) slapping a woman’s breasts while engaged in sexual intercourse with her.

[US]Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 cookie crashin Definition: to fuck a bitch and smack her titties when on top of her. (must be laying on back to make easy) Example: Man yo, I was cookie crashin dat bitch and she still wanted more.

In phrases

flip one’s cookie(s) (v.)

1. to lose emotional control.

Auto Driver 54-5 39/2: But where Beck really ‘flipped his cookies’ was when he said that the automobile industry was in the worst shape it has been in thirty years.
G.L. Coon Short End 55: ‘Crazy,’ I yelled back at him, and just about flipped my cookies from the effort [HDAS].
E. Jong Fear of Flying 34: But when he finally flipped his cookies (as we politely said in my immediate family) or showed symptoms of schizophrenia [...].
[US]G. Mayer Bookie 105: Also, I was getting very close to flipping my cookie.
D. Carey Masterclass 201: He finally flipped his cookies (as we politely said in my immediate family) or showed symptoms of schizophrenia (as one of his many psychiatrists put it) .
J. Glanz My Memories of You 204: Most of the time I feel like I’m going to flip my cookies. Mom and Dad treat me like a child; they’re always all over me.

2. to ejaculate.

[US]‘Sheila Morgan’ Whipped Passions n.p.: ‘The guy I was with last night [...] flipped his cookies twice jus’ watchin’ me undress’.
[US]‘F.W. Love’ Stud Landlord n.p.: ‘I had near flipped my cookies just over seein’ Frank’s eight and a half [inches]!’.

3. of a woman, to reach orgasm.

[US]‘Once a Sucker’ ‘Dennis Drew’ n.p.: Dianne had flipped her cookies real quick with that kind of action.
[US]‘Jack Gordon’ Her Son’s Favorite n.p.: ‘She could flip her cookies by me sucking up a tit for about five minutes’.

4. to vomit.

[US]H. Harrison Bill [...] on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1991) 89: Bill was beginning to get carsick [...] he fought hard not to flip his cookies.
M. Glenz B.S. Counter 248: A few more gurgles down the drain and it set wrong on his recent meal. He rushed outside to flip his cookies.
get one’s cookies (v.)

1. to have sexual intercourse; thus get one’s cookies off, to come to orgasm.

[US]F. Elli Riot (1967) 51: Let’s castrate the ol’ bastard [...] Fix him so he can’t get his cookies.
[US]G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 77: ‘You get your cookies too?’ Jackie Brown said.
[US](con. 1940s) C. Bram Hold Tight (1990) 72: He’s out getting his cookies off in Japland.
[US]S. Morgan Homeboy 174: He gets his cookies dusting whores.

2. fig., to enjoy oneself.

[US]Generation (U. Michigan) 9 23/1: You know you get your cookies gigging for the stiffs and digging all the pretty little foxes.
[US]G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 45: This how you get your cookies, Father?
[US]G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 224: Gettin’ your cookies without anybody knowin’?
[US]D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 121: You get any cookies out of it?
[US]Re’al ‘Bull’ Oney Hellions! 32: He really got his cookies off on guys like that. Then, like a woman off the rag, he got nicer.
lose one’s cookies (v.)

(US) to lose emotional control.

[US]B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 47: He was one of the few men [...] who could pass out and not lose either his cookies or his dignity.
[US](con. 1950) E. Frankel Band of Brothers 3: He still losin’ his cookies?
[US]R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 483: When you hate like I do you can’t afford to take chances because if you lose you lose all your cookies as well.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 4: lose one’s cookies – to go crazy.
[US]H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 343: lost [one’s] cookies (comparable to gone crackers in crackpot).
[US]P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 315: So he was approached in a men’s room and lost his cookies? What happened? What psychosis?
[UK]Indep. on Sun. Mag. 9 Apr. 16: He worried that he might actully lose his cookies.
pop one’s cookies (v.) (also snap one’s cookies)

1. (US) to vomit.

[US]H.A. Smith Rhubarb 213: He’ll snap his cookies.
[US]N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 212: Popped my cookies [...] Flashed the old hash all over Twenny-Second.
[US]Baker et al. CUSS 99: Cookies, snap your Vomit.
[US]Current Sl. IV:1 14: Snap . . . cookies, v. Regurgitate.

2. of a woman, to reach orgasm.

‘John Dexter’ Everyone’s Virgin n.p.: Elinor had screwed Carla’s brains loose — and Carla had popped her cookies.
[US]R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words.
Desdemona ‘Cherry Blossom’ on Alt Sex Stories Text Repository 🌐 He shoved in and his penis erupted, spray-painting her vaginal walls with passion juice. Cherry rocked up into him, smashing her clitty against him, and popped her cookies. Baxter gave a few paradise strokes and then collapsed onto her.
The Picture 7 Sept. 74: ‘The slow grind ended [...] with me shooting my load up her dripping nunga and her humping me with a powerful pelvic rotation until she popped her cookies’.

3. of a man, to ejaculate.

[US]‘John Dexter’ For Lust’s Sake n.p.: ‘I have the feeling that Art will be ready to pop his cookies within a very short time!’.
X. Hollander Happy Hooker 247: I took the biggest dildo around and jammed it in his rear end, and he popped his cookies.
‘Peter Lonsdale’ Frank’s Oversexed Aunt n.p.: ‘She knew that if she continued this tit massage for long he’d pop his cookies all over them and that seemed like an awful waste of that liquid heaven.’.
nifty.org 23 May 🌐 I popped my cookies, which choked him, he coughed, spiting my come all over my legs.
W. Beyea Fatal Impeachment 77: ‘Hell, if Vanessa floozy, big boobs, can get him to pop his cookies, I should be able to turn him into Vesuvius’.
C. Wendig Blackbirds 28: ‘He’s lying there on the bed, all smug and satisfied after popping me in the eye and then popping his cookies – at least he didn’t pop his cookies in my eye’.
shoot (one’s) cookies (v.) (also drop (one’s) cookies)

1. (US campus) to vomit.

[US]W.R. Morse ‘Stanford Expressions’ in AS II:6 278: shoot one’s cookies — vomit.
[US]R. Chandler ‘Finger Man’ in Pearls Are a Nuisance (1964) 106: You better go lay down somewhere, buddy. If I’m any judge of colour, you’re goin’ to shoot your cookies.
[US]F. Brown Dead Ringer 102: I hadn’t been able to hold two drinks, which was all I’d had, without shooting my cookies.
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS 163/2: drop [one’s] cookies = shoot [one’s] cookies.
[US]Current Sl. IV:1 14: Shoot . . . cookies, v. Regurgitate.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 2: When she walks in wearing that convalescent gown, I could shoot my cookies.
[US]Eble Sl. and Sociability 52: When today’s college students ‘vomit’, they shoot cookies.

2. to ejaculate.

[US]‘Dick Long’ Pipe Cleaner n.p.: The boy was getting very fired up and I could tell he was about to shoot his cookies.
[US]‘Dean Davis’ Gentlemen Prefer Nymphs n.p.: Her playing first with the staff and then with his balls caused Del amost to shoot his cookies.
[US]‘Kyle Maxwell’ Sex Circus n.p.: I shot my cookies and the gushing mess squirted over both of them.

3. of a woman, to reach orgasm.

[US]‘Dick Long’ Pipe Cleaner n.p.: [I] began rubbing her clit. It was not long before she was shooting her cookies.
[US]‘Rand McTeirnan’ Sex Sorority n.p.: Henry [...] could hear the steady rhythm of her breathing gasps. ‘She’s coming, she’s climaxing, she’s shooting her cookies’.
smart cookie (n.) (also bright cookie, sharp cookie/cooky)

(orig. US) a bright, opportunistic person; also ironically.

H.L. Ickes America’s House of Lords 185: And there you are — the advertiser controls the press! Pretty simple for a smart cookie like old Ick to figure.
[US]H. McCoy Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in Four Novels (1983) 210: Is he a dope? Did he come in with us or didn’t he? There’s your answer. He’s a smart cookie.
[US]M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 73: Wendy was a sharp little cooky.
[US]B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 34: He was a smart cookie.
[US]J. Thompson ‘The Frightening Frammis’ in Fireworks (1988) 114: Here was one sharp cookie [...] As sharp as she was tough.
[US]R. Chandler Playback 52: I just knew I’d picked a smart cookie.
[US]C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 93: We’re playing with a bunch of smart cookies, talented guys, professionals.
[US] in T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 67: A sharp cookie all of a sudden wants to play Mr. Jesus.
[Ire](con. 1950s) J. Healy Death of an Irish Town 57: Say, kid, how come a smart cookie like you don’t come out here?
[US]T. O’Brien Going After Cacciato (1980) 206: Doc, he’s a pretty smart cookie.
[US]G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 141: Couple of smart cookies.
[UK]M. Amis London Fields 324: Sheridan Sick: a smart cookie. Yeah, a biscuit, with a haircut on top, powered by a certain je-ne-sais-quoi.
[US]C. Hiaasen Native Tongue 248: You’re a smart cookie.
[UK]Indep. on Sun. Rev. 19 Dec. 12: A smart cookie. A smooth operator.
[US]B. Wiprud Sleep with the Fishes 147: That Bifulco was a sharp cookie, sticking him with that carp.
[Aus]L. Redhead Peepshow [ebook] You seemed like a smart cookie, seemed to have your head screwed on right.
[US](con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Sharp cookie that I was, I was figuring out this guy wasn’t my biggest fan.
[UK]K. Sampson Killing Pool 4: She’s a bright cookie [...] sharp as a tack.
toss one’s cookies (v.) (also toss one’s tacos)

1. (orig. US campus) to vomit.

[US]C.R. Bond 13 Oct. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 24: The fact that he already was skunk drunk, meant that he usually ended up tossing his cookies.
[US]J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye (1958) 86: The cab I had was a real old one that smelled like someone’d just tossed his cookies in it. I always get those vomity kind of cabs.
[US]W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 38: The stench of stale beer [...] and the clogged toilet were enough to make anybody toss his cookies.
[US]Baker et al. CUSS.
[US]G. Swarthout Skeletons 230: Digging into the grave on the right. A bit of beard. I tossed my cookies.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 1: blow groceries – [...] toss your tacos.
[US]R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 21: That naked body had no head [...] I thought I was going to toss my cookies.
[US]C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 188: God help you if you toss your cookies.
[US]J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 337: As the judge watched in horror, the defendant tossed his cookies all over the counsel table.
[US]Mad mag. Aug. 43: Ozzy [Osbourne] used to be known for tossing his cookies.

2. in imper., a derisory retort.

[US]J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 206: ‘Peace, love, happiness.’ ‘Toss my cookies.’.

3. to make someone sick.

[US]S. Morgan Homeboy 16: How could they know the mere sight of a male member tossed Bermuda’s cookies?

SE in slang uses

In compounds

cookie-duster (n.) (also cooky duster)

1. (US) a moustache; thus a moustachioed person.

Milwaukee Road Mag. 30-1 64/3: Doesn’t Frank Basil look cute with the cookie-duster he grew to cover what he calls a ‘cold sore’.
[US]N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 330: Look at the cooky duster, girls!
[US](con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 414: ‘And some cosmoline for this little baby.’ Hugh rubbed his cookie duster affectionately.
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 54: cookie duster any mustache, but usually the bristles found on the upper lip of some women charged with being lesbians.
[US]C. Lipski ‘The Cookie Duster’ 🌐 The Cookie Duster has tried to teach everyone everywhere to ‘Keep a little ’stache in your heart.’.
gruntdoc.com 1 May [blog] I shaved off my moustache. My cookie duster is no more.
[UK]Eve. Standard (London) 29 Nov. 47/1: The assorted bristles and whiskers [...] lipbrows, soup-strainers, cookie-dusters.
[US]L.A. Times 14 Jan. F11/2: Public sentiment seemed slightly in favor of keeping the ‘shaggy soup strainer’ or the ‘old cookie duster’.

2. see cookie-pusher n.

cookie-pusher (n.)

see separate entry.

cookie-shine (n.) (also cookey-shine, cooky-shine)

a tea-party.

University Snowdrop (Edinburgh) 18: It was indeed a regular cookie shine! / Such lots of pretty girls — such gauze and laces!
J.M. Wilson Wilson’s Tales of the Borders 218: Mrs Humphrey Greenwood, the presiding divinity of this motley gathering, vulgarly yclept a ‘cookie-shine,’ was planted behind a brightly-burnished brass urn of liberal dimension, that hissed loudly on the table.
[UK]C. Reade Hard Cash I 103: We shall see whether we are on the right system: and if so, we’ll dose her with youthful society in a more irrashinal forrm; conversaziones, cookeyshines, et citera.
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues II 176/1: cookeyshine, subs. (old Scots). – An afternoon meal at which cookies (q.v.) form a staple dish.
[US]S.F. Call 14 July 7/2: The Ladies’ Opportunity Circle [...] is to give a ‘cookie shine’ on board the British ship.
Eleusis of Chi Omega 2-3 62: As Sigma Deltas we were entertained by Pi Beta Phi at a ‘Cookie Shine’ and by Alpha Omicron Pi at a ‘Kaffee Klatsch’.
[US]L.A. Herald 1 Jan. 6/1: [headline] Cookie Shine for Sorority.
[US]Wash. Herald (DC) 9 Jan. 7/3: All Pi Phis who have recently come to Wshington are invited to attend [...] the ‘cooky-shine’.
[US]Seattle Star (WA) 6 Jan. 12/1: It will be joined by [...] the sorority for a ‘cooky shine’.
[UK]M. Marshall Tramp-Royal on the Toby 176: It would have made a bacchanal of the gods on Olympus seem like a Band of Hope cookie-shine.

In phrases

have a cookie in the oven (v.) [var. on have a bun in the oven under oven n.]

(US) to be pregnant.

[US] in P.R. Runkel Law Unto Themselves 250: They c’n do the same thing I do but the women they can’t end up with a cookie in ’er oven.
L.L. Simon Bow-Wow Club 23: DIANE. And how’s the little cookie in the oven. FREIDA. The little cookie in the oven is turning into a three-layer cake fast. DIANE. You don't have to tell me. One minute you can see your feet and the next minute you can't.
shop cookie (n.)

see sense 4 above.