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. |
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. |