golden adj.
1. (orig. US campus) fine, successful, secure.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 45: [note] Yet who could quarrel with Mademoiselle Mercandotti [...] for the step she took [...] by securing a young and golden partner for life. | |
| Sporting Times 7 Jan. 1/4: She was a rising actress, and was demanded in matrimony by a golden Johnny. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Gator Sl.’ AS XXXIV:2 155: An exciting, gay occasion may be referred to as golden, a real big one, a blast, or a good un. | |
| ‘High Dice’ in Gentleman Junkie 87: I was golden. Every time those dice hit that plywood wall [...] they read heavenly. | |
| Union Dues (1978) 380: You get on with us, you’re golden. | |
| Sl. U. 29: As soon as I get caught up on my homework, I’ll be golden. | |
| Lucky You 142: Champ Powell could see his future in the law profession turning golden. With one phone call, Arthur Battenkill could get him a job with any firm in the Panhandle. | |
| Way Home (2009) 105: Flynn still had Isaac and his team, and they were golden. Isaac had been with him for many years. | |
| (con. 1972) What It Was 78: The information had come from a law enforcement officer [...] and the tip was golden. | |
| Squeeze Me 209: ‘If I do this I’m golden [...] Maybe I’ll even get a rise’. | |
| Secret Hours 316: ‘So you give us a week, ten days, before reporting back, and you’ll be golden’. |
2. (US) lucrative.
| Walsingham IV 278: So you see, my dainty, I have nothing to do but to marry a golden dolly, or give my creditors the go-by, with a brace of barking irons. | |
| [ | | It’s a Racket! 226: golden — Dollars; gold money]. |
| Lucky You 89: ‘And if it takes the card?’ ‘Then we’re golden for one more day.’. |
SE in slang uses
Pertaining to human waste
In compounds
(US gay) anal intercourse culminating in urination rather than ejaculation.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
(US) urine, in context of sex.
| Women in Command 16 in Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 77: ‘milady’s toilet slave’ reveals the intimate relationship between her and her golden nectar slave. |
(US) pellets of frozen urine, thrown to and sucked by the masochistic partner in a sadomasochistic scenario.
| in Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 77: I’ll suck on anything my mistress’s, including her gold nuggets (information provided by vice squad, Columbus Police Dept). | |
| Lang. Sadomasochism. |
see separate entry.
General uses
In compounds
a sovereign.
| Mysteries of London III 5/2: Twenty-seven golden boys and eight pounds in Bank-notes. |
a dupe, a fool.
| ‘Of the Comforts of a Petticoat-Pensioner’ Miseries of Whoring 163: When rigg’d, he often Man’s her thro’ the Street, / And if a golden Chubb by chance they meet, / He takes his leave. |
(UK Und.) rum.
| Police! 321: Rum ... Golden cream. |
the vagina.
 | Removalists [play] 🌐 We’ll thread the eye of the golden doughnut. | |
| Hot to Trot 216: Don’t think women aren’t attracted to me. I’ve threaded the eye of the Golden Doughnut many times. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | G’DAY 5: An Australian [...] may be lucky enough to get a good root but he never [...] threads the eye of the golden doughnut. |
1. (US black) a very attractive woman, esp. when white.
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 18: golden girl – The main chick; a fantastic fox that makes every guy trip out. | |
| ‘Vocab. of Race’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 145: Golden Girl. Refers to the hair color of white women; ‘golden’ connotes value, and the label is complimentary. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 143: Terms that are used interchangeably to characterize a sexually attractive woman and a variety of drugs [...] main stuff, golden girl. |
2. (drugs) heroin [girl n.2 (2) but note heroin is more usu. boy n.2 (5a); presumably the golden, i.e. brown, colour is more pertinent to the image here].
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Golden girl — Heroin. |
(Aus./N.Z.) a golden coin, a sovereign.
| (con. c. 1885) Eve. News (Sydney) 15 July 5/4: My black beauty, do you know that you have got to fight to-night for my twenty-five golden googies? | |
| Nat. Advocate (Bathurst, NSW) 22 Aug. 3/1: It appears the sailors were paid up to; [...] and the papers boast that, they, ‘did in’ twenty thousand golden googies. No New Zealand township ever had so much money before. | |
| Eve. News (Sydney) 7 Oct. 9/1: Those who play the game are each rewarded for the season by thrice-three hundred of what are politically termed golden googies (in Latin, quids). | |
| Windsor & Richmond Gaz. (NSW) 20 May 11/4: There’s plenty of good golden googies to be picked up at the Ferry. | |
| North Western Courier (Narrabri, NSW) 5 Sept. 4/1: He gave away 500 golden ‘googies,’ did not even get a china setting in return. |
(drugs) top-quality marijuana.
| [instrumental title] Golden Leaf Strut. | |
| Really the Blues 117: [We] made sure a can of golden-leaf was handy, so everyone could gain altitude in his own way. [Ibid.] 370: golden leaf: the best marijuana. | |
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 103: golden leaf acapulco gold. | |
| Underground Dict. (1972). | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Golden leaf — Marijuana. |
a guinea.
| Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 60: She expects a brace of golden pictures at or before parting. |
1. the anus, thus show (someone) the golden rivet, to sodomise.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | (con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 47: Any old three-badge stoker ever shown you the golden rivet? | |
| (con. WW2) Heart of Oak [ebook] You’re so doggo I’d rather show the golden rivet to a rattle-snake. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 67: The argot of the docker (not surprisingly) was heavily influenced by Navy slang. Thus terms like being shown the golden rivet [...] and ringbolting became part of an interchangeable lexicon. |
2. (US gay) the penis.
| Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 34: Penis [...] golden rivet. |
(N.Z. prison) a $50 note.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 80/1: golden wedding n. a $50 note. |
(N.Z. prison) the syringe and needle used for injecting a narcotic.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 80/1: golden worm, the n. a hypodermic syringe and needle. |