Green’s Dictionary of Slang

drill v.1

1. to have sexual intercourse, usu. of a male.

[UK]Fletcher Chances III i: But how ye may abuse my House? not satisfy’d With bringing home your Bastards to undo me, But you must drill your Whores here too?
[UK]H. Glapthorne Albertus Wallenstein I iii: Be not you bashfull now, but fall on boldly heart, let me drill her for you, if her body be under Musket proofe, ’tis ten to one my morris pike shall enter.
[UK]J. Bell Jr. (ed.) Rhymes of Northern Bards 34: With ardour heroic I glow; / But love’s dear delights shall I barter for drilling / You sure can’t refuse me.
[UK]Satirist (London) 6 Jan. 429/2: The Duchess [...] was asked if she admired quadrilles? Her Grace replied in the affirmative, observing, that she was fond of drilling of any kind.
[US]Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 14 May n.p.: the whip wants to know If the hunter has drilled Sandy yet.
Razaf & Williams ‘My Man O’ War’ 🎵 I got myself a military man / [...] / Takes his bugle when he calls me / At night he’s drilling constantly / He’s My Man O’ War.
[US]Dinah Washington ‘Long John Blues’ 🎵 Long John, Long John, you’ve got that golden touch / You thrill me when you drill me, and I need you very much.
[US] in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 368: I wish I was a pretty little girl and I had lots of money. / I would marry a driller’s son; / he’d be as good as any. / He would drill and I would drill and we would drill together. / Oh, what fun we would have, drilling one another.
[US]‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 154: After a bitch has had maybe ten-thousand tricks drill her she ain’t too steady.
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 88: anal intercourse [...] drill (‘F’crissakes, man, whatcha tryin’ t’do . . . drill me a new hole?’).
[US]‘Victoria Parker’ Incest Schoolgirls 🌐 Jason humped wildly. Jilly tried to stay with him, but it was useless. She finally fell back on the bed and let him drill her pussy.
[Aus]Penguin Bk of Aus. Jokes 339: I’ve had it [penis] drilled into me a thousand times.
[US]C. Cook Robbers (2001) 209: My woman’s out getting drilled.
[UK]Jade LB Keisha the Sket (2021) 57: A gurl datz had da whole estate drillin up in her shit rawbck.
[US]UGK ‘Like That’ 🎵 She love how I’m drillin it / Throw it up on her she throw it right, back.
[US] M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] One uh those bitches from the club. That English prick used to drill her.
[UK]R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 342: ‘I’ve also drilled them wonderfully and thoroughly’.

2. (also drill up) to shoot (dead); thus drilling n.

[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘The Royal Tour’ Works (1796) IV 90: Lucky fellow, that you were not drill’d: Some lose their heads, and many men are kill’d.
[UK] in E.S. Barrett Miss-Led General i. 11: It would be a terrible affair to us [...] if we should be drilled with a bullet, or susp. per coll., by the order of some hop-o’-my-thumb upstart usurper .
[UK] ‘Disasters of Poor Jerry Blossom’ Sailor’s Vocal Repository 28: I thou’t I were dead, Sike a queer kind of dizziness coom’d e ma head; Had I known his tricks I’d ge’en him a drilling.
[UK]Marryat Peter Simple (1911) 18: Being drilled was to be shot through the body.
[US]C.G. Leland ‘Breitmann as a Bummer’ Hans Breitmann’s Party 16: Itsch’l of Innspruck ish drilled troo de hair.
[US]A.H. Lewis Wolfville 160: Put your hands up! – put ’em up quick or I’ll drill you!
[US]J. Lait ‘One Touch of Art’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 213: If I drills your bean I collects.
[US]S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 151: A slow voice said Reach for the sky, Yank, or I’ll nachully drill yuh. His hands flew up.
[US]J. Lait Put on the Spot 186: ‘Get the hell out o’ here,’ he shrilled, ‘or I’ll drill you. You’re standin’ between me an’ your wors’ enemy.’.
[US]O. Strange Sudden Takes the Trail 177: There ain’t much doubt as to who drilled Amos.
[US]R. Chandler Playback 42: I could drill you and get away with it.
[US]‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 48: She [...] drilled herself and kid through the head.
[US]‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 36: ‘[O]ne false move and I’ll drill you’.
[US]M. Baker Nam (1982) 117: You set it up, get him in the sights and drill him.
[UK]J. Mowry Six Out Seven (1994) 495: Never can tell when them pigs gonna show up. Might get your ass drilled.
S.L.A. Marshall Island Victory 17: He rolled over to get his rifle and as he rolled another rifle bullet drilled him through the buttocks.
150 ‘4 Door Truck’ 🎵 On the drive with the guys won’t lack drill a truck make that shit crash (skr).
150 ‘4 Door Truck’ 🎵 I ready drilled up his boss, mind how you chat man'll drill that too.
[US]T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] Billy drilled him in the chest with a pair of double taps.
[UK]Unknown T ‘Homerton B’ 🎵 T jumped out, tryna catch some drillings, / Man get fried, finna duck them chickens.

3. to punch, to beat.

[US]T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 216: I’m telling you, I nailed him. I drilled that fucker.
[UK]Indep. Rev. 25 Sept. 1: He’s gonna drill that Eubank bad.

4. to finish a drink.

[US]S. Morgan Homeboy 136: Kitty drilled her scotch and rapped her glass on the bar.

5. (Aus.) to interrogate.

[Aus]D. McDonald Luck in the Greater West (2008) 179: Fadi’s in there? Next door, being drilled too? [...] he’ll fucking tell them everything.
[US]D.B. Flowers Bangs 242: Bulger drilled Murray and threatened [...] ‘if you don’t pay me now, I’ll kill you’.
[US]L. Lungaro The 3-0 135: I continued to drill him as to why they were in this apartment.

6. (UK gang) to attack, to invade another gang’s territory.

[UK]T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Drilling – attacking, aggressing, invading.

In derivatives

In compounds

drill (music) (n.) (also drill rap)

(orig. US black) a subset of Southern trap music originateing in Chicago; trap deals with drug dealing, thus origin trap n.1 (18); drill focuses primarily on violence; the style has now moved to the UK, esp. certain estates in South London.

F. Stuart ‘Dispatches from the Rap Wars’ in chicagomag.com 🌐 If they are walking through a neighborhood and hear a certain kind of drill coming from a passing car or a phone speaker, they know that corner belongs to the gang Diddy Grove [...] I knew CBE’s music—the gang is one of the best-known drill-rap outfits in the city.

In phrases

drill for oil (v.) (orig. US black)

of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

[US] Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson ‘Oil Man Blues’ 🎵 [...] drilling for oil.
[US]‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 25: I drove all three sisters to wide-eyed distraction as I manned the pump and drilled for oil for another solid hour of pure, unalloyed fun and games.