rack n.2
1. (US) an omnibus.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Daily Trib. (Bismarck, ND) 23 Oct. 4/1: An omnibus is a ‘rack’. |
2. (US) the female breasts, esp. when large and firm; thus racked out, having large breasts.
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 174: I love a big rack as much as the next guy. | |
| Current Sl. IV:3–4 (1970) 22: Rack, n. A woman with a large bust. | |
| Ball Four 259: ‘Up there near the Section 23 sign. Check the rack on that broad’. | |
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 40: Long legs, a rack and a nice package in the back. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Peepshow [ebook] All I really needed was the tits. Witha rack like this nobody looks very closely at your face. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 224: He’s copping an eyeful of Sorcha’s rack. | |
| (ref. to 1963) Winter of Frankie Machine (2007) 60: Marie Anselmo hot [...] with a nice rack packed tightly in that blouse and a pair of shapely legs. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] Check out that fat bloke. He’s got a better rack than you. | |
| Slate 20 Jan. 🌐 Radical rack augmentation is now ubiquitous, and to hell with the consequences. | |
| (con. 1972) What It Was 39: The big firm rack of a straight-off-the-farm centerfold. | |
| On the Bro’d 242: [A] total smokeshow and pretty racked out. | |
 | Twitter 2 June 🌐 Boy of around 10 years old just walked straight into my rack. Head firmly between both breasts, and stayed there until I removed him. | |
| Heat [ebook] She had the deepest tan he’d ever seen, nice rack, long taut muscles moving under calves and thighs. | |
| ‘Crime 101’ in Broken 70: [T]rim legs, nice rack. |
3. (orig. US milit.) a bed; thus sleep.
| Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: back in the rack . . . . to get back into bed. A soldier should never go to bed as long as he has the strength to lie in bed. | |
| Vice Trap 73: He’ll go back across the border and sleep in his own rack the same night. | |
| How to Talk Dirty 18: The guy who sleeps in the bunk above me stuck it on the edge of my rack. | |
| Carlito’s Way 45: I seen some jump off their rack with a towel wrapped around their neck. | |
| Nam (1982) 16: You got two minutes to get dressed, make your rack and fall out. | |
| (con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 181: The rack is too soft for comfort after a year of sleeping on a reed mat. | |
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 291: usage: ‘The rack calls me. I’m off’. | |
| Night Gardener 8: When I was in the rack with her [etc.]. | |
| Cutman [ebook] All I wanted was [...] a bellyful of beer and a nice, soft rack to sleep it off. | |
| The Force [ebook] ‘The comptroller found naked [...] in the rack with a brace of call girls’. |
4. (US black) a card holding bubble-packed birth control pills.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 197: There are expressions related to pregnancy, menstruation, birth control, and female hygiene: [...] rack, roll (month’s supply of birth control pills). |
5. (US drugs) a quantity of drugs, e.g. pills, vials of crack cocaine, etc.
| Campus Sl. Oct. 5: rack – five red depressants of seconal. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1971) Times Square 59: ‘A hundred a rack ain’t nothin’.’ They snort three hundred dollars’ worth of coke a night. | |
| ‘Strange Bedfellows’ Oz ser. 2 ep. 6 [TV script] The voters would frown upon their chief executive doing street rack. | |
| Soul Circus 201: He had some fake crack in his pocket, a whole rack of dummies. | |
| ‘Dead Up’ 🎵 Walk around with 5 zeds in my pouch / Let 4 go for a whole rack. | |
| ‘Recipe’ 🎵 Shit I'm smokin' so loud we call it ambulance / So many racks in my pocket, look like some Hammer pants. |
6. (US black) of money, a large quantity.
| Soul Circus 162: I’ll give what I got for some dummies I can sell out there on the strip. I can make a quick rack of money like that. | |
| ‘Kobe’ 🎵 I say baby I got the racks she like you need to show me / [...] / On my right wrist Versace on my left wrist a Rolly. | |
| at http://www.redbull.com 🌐 I’ve never had a label wire 100 racks to my bank account or whatever. | |
| ‘Mad about Bars’ 🎵 Bag that work with the latex on, the rack will come in, / Again and again, the racks will come in. | |
| ‘Little Big Boss’ 🎵 I do boss shit / I drop a hunnid racks and get that pussy boy off quick. |
7. a hotel.
| Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 9: The Hotel Urbane, a fading tourist rack off Broadway in the Nineties. |
8. (US teen) a case of beer.
| Urban Dict. 31 Oct. 🌐 All I know is I give somebody $20 and they come back with a thirty rack of beer. | |
| New Yorker 31 Aug. 🌐 Participants form teams of two and compete to see which pair can drink its way through a case of beer the fastest. (To get the most out of the experience, I was told, it’s best to use a ‘thirty rack.’). |
In derivatives
1. tired out, exhausted.
| et al. CUSS 180: Racked Drunk and passed out. | |
| Executioner (1973) 167: They’re gonna get themselves racked out, that’s what. |
2. in bed, asleep.
| Semi-Tough 127: Everybody else is still racked in and I guess I’m up early because this is Friday and it will be our last serious workout of the week. |
of a girl or woman, having large breasts.
| On the Bro’d 114: I’d been [...] smashing with this Lisa chick, a racked-out girl who I could sorta see legit dating. |
In compounds
(US campus) a sudden onset of sleepiness.
| Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 15 Jan. 9/3: I’ve had so many afternoon rack attacks I’ve got bed sores. | |
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 64: rack attack Rest, nap. |
1. (also pad monster) sleepiness, the result either of boredom or exhaustion.
| Current Sl. II:3 5: Pad monster, n. Sleep in its most contagious form; the result of something extremely dull. | |
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 64: The rack monster got me. |
2. a bed.
| Campus Sl. Mar. | |
| ‘A dirty little story’ in eye mag. 8 July 🌐 He suggested they do some Ugandan discussion at his pit, where they lay down on the rack monster. |
sleep; a nap.
| (con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 51: Cutting zulus, the New Guy nods forward, pulls himself a little rack time. | |
| August Snow [ebook] ‘Looks like you ain’t slept in twenty-four. Get some rack time, man’. |
In phrases
1. to go to bed.
| (con. early 1950s) Valhalla 58: Well, we may as well hit the rack. | |
| On the Yard (2002) 211: I don’t have to do nothing you say, punk. Hit your rack. | |
| A Few Good Men (1990) 54: Take a shower and hit the rack! | |
| In Pharoah’s Army 146: We stayed up and had a beer after Shaw and Sergeant Benet hit the rack. | |
| ‘The Weasel Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ in Rolling Stones 13 Apr. 57/4: [A]n hour at the hotel bar to try to shut your head off so you can hit the rack at 0130 and get up at 0600 and do it all over again. |
2. (US/US gay) by ext., to have sexual intercourse.
| Queens’ Vernacular 107: hit the sack [rack, springs] to make love. |
(drugs) to lay out a line of a powdered drug.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dead Man’s Trousers [21]: — Any ching? Sick Boy asks ays. — Well, aye… — Rack them the fuck oot then. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
an official in a crap game who deals with making change, paying winners, etc.
| Low Company 121: The rack man at Myrtle Avenue told him indifferently that none of them had been seen in the room all day. | |
| Imabelle 22: Across from him sat the rack man on a high stool. | |
| Rage in Harlem (1969) 23: [as 1957]. |
(US black) a comb designed spec. for use on a natural n. (6) or an afro n. (1) hairstyle.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines. |
In phrases
(US campus) to work hard.
| (ref. to 1940s) What’s The Good Word? 86: [At college] We did ‘rack it,’ which in terms of severity was somewhere between ‘hitting the books’ (in-room study) and ‘hitting the libe’ and could mean either or both. |