blacksnake

See also: black snake

English

Alternative forms

• black-snake

Etymology

From black +‎ snake.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈblaksneɪk/

Noun

blacksnake (plural blacksnakes)

1. Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.
2. (US) A long, tapering whip.
3. (chiefly vulgar, slang) A penis, especially a black penis.
   • 2003, Darwin Porter, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart, page 251:

     [He] couldn't keep from staring at my blacksnake. He'd probably never seen a dick like mine. I couldn't help but stare at his prick too. He had the smallest dick I'd ever seen on any man. […] She went over to Raft and pulled down his underwear, revealing his blacksnake. In front of Bogie, she eased down on her knees, skinned back the foreskin of Raft's penis, and insertd it into her mouth.

Verb

blacksnake (third-person singular simple present blacksnakes, present participle blacksnaking, simple past and past participle blacksnaked)

1. To whip with a long, tapering whip.
   • 1899, Missouri Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, page 513:

     He said to Stanbrough, “George, you damned son-of-a-bitch, you blacksnaked my aunt with a blacksnake, and I am going to wear this out on you, ” and began striking him with the buggy whip. He struck the deceased several times ...

   • 2001, Roger A. Bruns, The Damndest Radical [...] Ben Reitman, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 121:

     They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.

   • 2001, Martha C. Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     A settler on the Muddy River was more blunt : "injuns killed a calf the other day we did em up and Blacksnaked [bullwhipped] em I ges they will know better next time made them sing Ki hi Ki hi they have ben good as little pigs since.

   • 2006, Thomas A. Green, The Greenwood Library of American Folktales [Four Volumes], Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 182:

     Whenever he and Bell had a row—and their rows got bigger and bitterer—the overseer went out and blacksnaked three or four slaves, for they were the only critters in the shape of man that he could abuse without a comeback.