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English
Etymology
From dick + string.
Noun
dickstring (plural dickstrings)
- (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 , 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.