give head

From the giver's head; cf. give brain, give dome, give hat, give neck.

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give head (third-person singular simple present gives head, present participle giving head, simple past gave head, past participle given head)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) To perform oral sex on another person. [from 1950s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perform oral sex

   Hyponym: fellate

   • 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:

     But she never lost her head / Even when she was giving head

   • 1974, Leonard Cohen, “Chelsea Hotel No. 2”, in New Skin for the Old Ceremony:

     You were talking so brave and so sweet / Givin' me head on the unmade bed / While the limousines wait in the street

   • 1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):

     Ah, what the fuck, I only saw her for a minute. First impressions of this kind can often be misleading. Does she give head?

   • 2000, “The Real Slim Shady”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:

     Yo, shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs / So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst / And hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first

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