horse cock

plural horse cocks · alternative horsecock

1. countableliterallyvulgarThe penis of a horse or a similar equid.
2. countablefigurativelyslangvulgarA very large penis.

   Well, if anybody had a big cock it was Bill Woodruff. It was a veritable horse cock.

   1962, Henry Miller, Sexus, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 184

   Synonyms: cunt buster, donkey cock, donkey dick, horse dick, monster cock, monsterdick, supercock, superdick

3. slanguncountablevulgargovernmentSausage such as baloney or salami.

   […] 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.

   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

4. slanguncountablevulgarNonsense, that which is illogical and lacks any meaning, reason, or value.

   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.

   1925, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Harold Loeb dated 5 January 1925, quoted in Kenneth Schuyler Lynn, Hemingway, Harvard University Press (1995; first published 1987), page 266

   Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls