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dickstring en · NOUN

Etymology

From dick + string.

Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar) The suspensory ligament of the penis.
   • Shit, take a guy working his dickstring loose, making payments on some kinda little ol’ cracker box house and sending his kids to school by being a corrections officer. 2000, Ray Garmon, The Man Who Just Didn’t Care, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 157:
   • The hand of the other half is a razor, / And when I am not good / My little god/dess gets me living in this life / And slices another nanometer / Through my dickstring. 1980, Obsidian, page 98:
   • I heard the mop smack the floor behind me and Charleston saying, “Yeah, man, but you didn’t have to shoot him; you hit him with that Cadillac and that was enough to break his dickstring,” and Minifees’ laughter coughed and sputtered in the dark. a. 1994, Ralph Ellison, “Book I”, in John F. Callahan, Adam Bradley, editors, Three Days Before the Shooting..., New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 2010, part I, page 221:
   • Dey tearin’ mah ole dickstring loose. 1971, Ed Bullins, The Duplex: A Black Love Fable in Four Movements, page 9:
   • “It will be interesting to see,” Njangu said, “if we can start a war for a change, or if we’ve got to wait until somebody knocks our dickstrings loose.” 2000, Chris Bunch, Firemask (Book Two of the Last Legion Series), Prologue Books, →ISBN:
   • Lodown flipped out his razor “motherfucker i’ll cut your fuckin’ dickstring, send you ass back down home with one arm and one ear.” 1971, Black Review, page 78:
   • Last week he was screaming I would face certain death for drinking milk after a large order of shrimp. "Fish and milk will knock your dickstring loose," he claimed. 1972, John Asberry McCluskey, The Pilgrims, page 133:
   • Going to tear / Your playhouse down. / Going to knock / That dickstring loose.[…]Gee could hear the hiss of the moon rocket’s semi, then it was eyes front and a salute that snapped his dickstring tight. 1971, The Antioch Review, pages 162 and 179:
   • And if that’s true, then you’ve had it, because all you have to do is look at America to see that it’s cut its own dickstrings. 1973, Oliver Lange [pen name; John Warren Wadleigh], Incident at La Junta, published 1974, page 210:

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