Green’s Dictionary of Slang

golden adj.

1. (orig. US campus) fine, successful, secure.

[UK]Egan 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.
[UK]Sporting Times 7 Jan. 1/4: She was a rising actress, and was demanded in matrimony by a golden Johnny.
[US]L.P. Boone ‘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.
[US]H. Ellison ‘High Dice’ in Gentleman Junkie 87: I was golden. Every time those dice hit that plywood wall [...] they read heavenly.
[US]J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 380: You get on with us, you’re golden.
[US]P. Munro Sl. U. 29: As soon as I get caught up on my homework, I’ll be golden.
[US]C. Hiaasen 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.
[US]G. Pelecanos Way Home (2009) 105: Flynn still had Isaac and his team, and they were golden. Isaac had been with him for many years.
[US]G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 78: The information had come from a law enforcement officer [...] and the tip was golden.
[US]C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 209: ‘If I do this I’m golden [...] Maybe I’ll even get a rise’.
[UK]M. Herron Secret Hours 316: ‘So you give us a week, ten days, before reporting back, and you’ll be golden’.
[Aus]D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 122: ‘If you’re sure that you didn’t leave anything in Drew’s place that might finger you, we’re golden’.

2. (US) lucrative.

[UK]M. Robinson 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.
[[US]Hostetter & Beesley It’s a Racket! 226: golden — Dollars; gold money].
[US]C. Hiaasen 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

golden nectar (n.)

(US) urine, in context of sex.

[US]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.
golden nuggets (n.) (also gold nuggets)

(US) pellets of frozen urine, thrown to and sucked by the masochistic partner in a sadomasochistic scenario.

[US]in Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 77: I’ll suck on anything my mistress’s, including her gold nuggets (information provided by vice squad, Columbus Police Dept).
[US]Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism.
golden shower (n.)

see separate entry.

General uses

In compounds

golden chub (n.) [a pun on the fish name + chub n.1 (1)]

a dupe, a fool.

[UK]N. Ward ‘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.
golden cream (n.) [its colour]

(UK Und.) rum.

[UK]Clarkson & Richardson Police! 321: Rum ... Golden cream.
golden doughnut (n.)

the vagina.

D. Williamson Removalists [play] 🌐 We’ll thread the eye of the golden doughnut.
[US]J. Lahr 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]C. Bowles G’DAY 5: An Australian [...] may be lucky enough to get a good root but he never [...] threads the eye of the golden doughnut.
golden girl (n.)

1. (US black) a very attractive woman, esp. when white.

[US]‘Hy Lit’ Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 18: golden girl – The main chick; a fantastic fox that makes every guy trip out.
[US]K. Johnson ‘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.
[US]E. Folb 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].

[US]ONDCP Street Terms 10: Golden girl — Heroin.
golden googie (n.) [goog n.1 (1); ? ref. to ‘the goose that laid the golden eggs’]

(Aus./N.Z.) a golden coin, a sovereign.

[Aus](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?
[Aus]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.
[Aus]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).
[Aus]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.
golden leaf (n.) [SE golden, resembling gold in value + leaf]

(drugs) top-quality marijuana.

[US]Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings [instrumental title] Golden Leaf Strut.
[US]Mezzrow & Wolfe 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.
[US]R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 103: golden leaf acapulco gold.
[US]E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
[US]ONDCP Street Terms 10: Golden leaf — Marijuana.
golden rivet (n.) [‘The golden rivet was a mythical feature of floor construction on ships that appeared in New Zealand Navy slang in the middle of last century. If one showed a boy the golden rivet one encouraged him to bend over, thus the term became a euphemism for buggery’ Ings (2010)]

1. the anus, thus show (someone) the golden rivet, to sodomise.

[Ire](con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 47: Any old three-badge stoker ever shown you the golden rivet?
[UK](con. WW2) T. Jones Heart of Oak [ebook] You’re so doggo I’d rather show the golden rivet to a rattle-snake.
[NZ]W. Ings ‘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.

[US]Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 34: Penis [...] golden rivet.
golden wedding (n.) [a golden wedding celebrates 50 years of marriage]

(N.Z. prison) a $50 note.

[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 80/1: golden wedding n. a $50 note.
golden worm (n.)

(N.Z. prison) the syringe and needle used for injecting a narcotic.

[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 80/1: golden worm, the n. a hypodermic syringe and needle.