Outbursts!. A.D. Peterkin

the first time I did engage in armour, which I found but dull satisfaction.”

       —James Boswell, journal entry, 1763

      American sock, armour, BB, B.C., bag, baggie, balloon, bishop, blob, body stocking, bone balloon, boner bag, bubble-gum machine, cadet, candy wrapper, cap, cassock, cling film, coat, cock sock, condom machine, condominium, Coney Island whitefish, cootie catcher, crum drum, cundum, diving bell, diving suit, dome, double bag, dubs, Durex, envelope, flunkey, flute mute, Fourex, franger, French letter, French tickler, frenchie/frenchy, frog, froggie, frogskin, fuck rubber, Glad bag/wrap, glove, hard hat, head gasket, headliner, jim, jimmy, jimmy hat, jit bag, jism jacket, jo-bag, johnny, jolly bag, joy bag, joy sock, knob sox, latex, latex love, lettre Anglaise, life jacket, life preserver, life saver, love envelope, love glove, lubie (lubricated), Manhattan eel, Mr. Happy’s business suit, muffler, muzzle, nightcap, noddy, overcoat, party hat, party pack, pecker pack, plumber’s helper, plumbing fixture, Port Said garter, propho, prophylactic, protection, raincoat, ribbed condom, rough rider (ribbed), rozzer, rubber, rubber boot, rubber duck, rubber duckie, rubber johnny, rubber pill, rubber sock, rubber up, sack, safe, scum sack, scumbag, shag bag, sheath, Shiek, shower-cap, skin, sleeve, slicker, snake skin, sock, squeegee, stiffy stocking, stopcock, stopper tube, suddle, sweater, tickler, tool bag, washer, wetsuit, Wiener wrap, willy-welly

      BB: “barebacking.”

      B.C.: “before condoms.”

      Historically the French referred to a condom as une lettre Anglaise and the English called it a French letter.

      Latex love: sex with a condom.

      Love envelope: 1980s U.S. gayspeak for a condom.

      Rubber up: to put on a condom.

      Ride bareback: vaginal or anal sex without a condom.

      Showering in a raincoat: sex with a condom.

      The invention of an increasing number of terms for condom is an AIDS-era phenomenon.

      Crotch (Male)

       see also Genitalia, Male

      Angry Inch, basket, basketeer, bulge, bump, hump, jewel case, laundry, lunch, meat basket, mound, package, packet, snack-pack, the goods, yummies

      Basketeer: someone who stares at male crotches.

      “My sex change operation got botched,

       my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch,

       now all I've got is a Barbie Doll crotch,

       I’ve got an Angry Inch”

       —Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) singing in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

      Cruise (to)

      bait, basket shop, bat your eyes at, break your neck, bumchat, catch, chase, check out, cheese (to), Christmas carolling, circle the circus, clock (to), come on to, convince, court, crack on, do a 180-degrees, do a 360-degrees, eye, eye contact (to make), eyeball, eye-fuck, fish, flam, follow, fish, game (to), gawk, gay gaze, gaydar (to use my), git wit, flash on, get, get a load of, get busy, get to home plate, give a come-hither look, give a double “O,” give one the cyclops, give the glad eye, give the once over, give the reckless eyeball, go after, go basket shopping, go for, grill (to), have eye sex, hawk, hit on, hoof (to),hold the glims on, jeff, jock (to), lamp, look over, look up and down at, lumber, make bedroom eyes at, make goo goo eyes at, make a dead set for, make a pass at, make a play for, make moves on, mousetrap, move in on, nail, not take no for an answer, ogle, on a meat safari, on bush patrol, on the bridge, on the pull, on the make, on the pirate (be), on the peep, perve, ping, prop up, pull, persist, play canasta, play musical chairs, power-cruise, prowl, pull a quick park, push upon, put the hard word on, put the moves on, put the rush on, reel in, rope in, rubberneck (to), scam, scope, scope the local units, score, scout, scrutinize, seduce, see, sleuth (to), stalk, size up, spot, spy, stare (at), strain your eyes, strain your neck, sticky eye contact, suck in, sweep off your feet, sweet-talk, tailgate, take a dekko, take a look at, take in, take notice of, track with, troll, trot, view, watch over, whore laps (do), zoom

      Break your neck: do a double take to cruise a hottie.

      Christmas carolling: checking out all the new glory holes.

      Circle the circus: refers to Picadilly circus, a popular London cruising area.

      Dykedar/gaydar: intuition for detecting other gays and lesbians.

      Hoof: on the prowl.

      Ping: the trans term for detecting other transfolk.

      Whore laps: to circle the bar for quick love.

      “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” was a hit for Aretha Franklin in 1985.

      Cunnilingus

       see also Oral Sex

      From the Latin cunnus (vulva) and lingere (to lick).

      barking at the ape, bird washing, box lunch, canyon yodeling, clam lapping, clitorilingus, cunning linguist (be a), cunt lapping, doormat bashing, drink at the fuzzy cup, eating out, eating pussy, egg McMuff, face job, fanny noshing, French, French tricks, French way, fress, go downstairs for breakfast, gorilla in the washing machine, growl at the badger, hammer tongue, have a moustache, head, larking, kiss it down, lick-twat, lickety-split, lip work, lunch at the lazy Y, muff barking, muff diving, ocean pinking, pug noshing, red wings, sack lunch, scalp, sip at the fuzzy cup, sixty-nine, skin diving, skull job, skulling, smoking the fur, splitting n hitting, soixante-neuf, sucking cunt, swap spit, tongue bath, tongue fucking, tongue job, tuna taco, vice versa, whistling in the dark

      Soixante-neuf/sixty-nine: dates to the 19th century in France and refers to mutual oral sex as visually suggested by the number itself.

      Cunnilingus (to Perform)

      blow some tunes, brush your teeth, carpet munch, clam dive, clean the cage out, clean up the kitchen, dental dam (use a), dine at the Y, dip in the bush, dive, dive a muff, dive in the canyon, drink at the fuzzy cup, eat, eat a tuna sandwich, eat a tuna taco, eat at the Y, eat hair pie, eat out, eat pussy, eat seafood, eat sushi, face the nation, give a blow job, give head, go boating, go down on, go under the house, go way down South in Dixie, grin in the canyon, growl at the badger, have a moustache, have a tuna sandwich, impersonate Stalin, lap cunt, lick-a-chick, make mouth music, muff dive, mumble in the moss, munch, munch the bearded clam, punch in the mouth, queening, scalp, sip at the fuzzy cup, sit on your face, skin dive, sneeze in the basket, sneeze in the cabbage, sneeze in the canyon, suck, talk to the canoe driver, telephone the stomach, tongue, tongue fuck, whistle in the weeds, yodel, yodel in the canyon (of love), yodel in the gully, yodel up the valley

      Dental dam: a latex barrier used during cunnilingus to reduce the risk of transmission of STDs.

      Muff diving: a 20th-century American euphemism, though muff dates to the 17th century, drawing parallels between the female genitals and a furry hand warmer.

      Queening: When a woman sits on a partner’s face, forcing her genitalia into their nose and mouth.

      Yodelling: a Swiss form of calling out involving vibration of the mouth, throat, and tongue, all of which enhance this particular sexual activity.

      Cut: see Penis, Circumcised, Foreskin

      Defecate (to)

       see also Fetishes, Urinate (to)

      accident (have an), Andy Capp, BM (bowel movement, have a), bury a quaker, capoop, cast, cast your pellet, choke a darkie, chuck a turd, clart, clear out, cramber, crap, cuck, deposit, dirty your pants, dispatch your cargo, do a dike, do a job, drop your load, drop your wax, drop turds, drop your ass, dump, ease nature, ease your bowels, evacuate the bowels, Edgar Britt, excused (be), fill your pants,