dickstring

English

Etymology

From dick +‎ string.

Noun

dickstring (plural dickstrings)

1. (vulgar, slang) The suspensory ligament of the penis.
   • 1971, Black Review, page 78:

     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, The Antioch Review, pages 162 and 179:

     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, Ed Bullins, The Duplex: A Black Love Fable in Four Movements, page 9:

     Dey tearin’ mah ole dickstring loose.

   • 1972, John Asberry McCluskey, The Pilgrims, page 133:

     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.

   • 1973, Oliver Lange [pen name; John Warren Wadleigh], Incident at La Junta, published 1974, page 210:

     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.

   • 1980, Obsidian, page 98:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2000, Chris Bunch, Firemask (Book Two of the Last Legion Series), Prologue Books, →ISBN:

     “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, Ray Garmon, The Man Who Just Didn’t Care, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 157:

     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.

Usage notes

Often used in a phrase such as knock someone's dickstring loose, tear someone's dickstring loose, etc, which means, metaphorically, to emasculate.