horse cock
See also: horsecock
English
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Noun
[edit]horse cock (countable and uncountable, plural horse cocks)
- (countable, vulgar, literally) The penis of a horse or a similar equid.
- (countable, vulgar, figuratively, slang) A very large penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:macropenis
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:horse cock.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly military) Sausage such as baloney or salami.
- 2004, Lewis M. Andrews, Tempest, Fire & Foe: Destroyer Escorts in World War II and the Men Who Manned Them, Trafford Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 50:
- […] Those who served on the Mediterranean convoys may remember that we had to carry food for the round trip, and the last 1000-2000 miles were a steady diet of baloney. We felt "horse cock" was good enough for prisoners too, especially those who ordered "Fire!" on our ships.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:horse cock.
- (uncountable, slang) Nonsense, that which is illogical and lacks any meaning, reason, or value.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
- 1925, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Harold Loeb dated 5 January 1925, quoted in Kenneth Schuyler Lynn, Hemingway, Harvard University Press (1995; first published 1987), →ISBN, page 266:
- Don said it was all horse cock except they didn't want to lead off with a book of short stories no matter whether good or not.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:horse cock.
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[edit]- “horse cock n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present