green weenien.
/ˌɡriːn ˈwiːni/, U.S. /ˌɡrin ˈwini/ U.S.
1. slang (originally Military). With the. An unpleasant, unfair, or undesirable situation or event. Often in figurative phrases, as the means by which this is inflicted upon someone: cf. weenie n. to eat (also bite) the green weenie: to die.During the 1966 baseball season the term referred to a green rubber rattle sold at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh (see quot. 1966).
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1944 P. Kendall Dict. Service Slang (Navy slang) Green weinie, anything bad.
1966 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 20 Sept. 7/1 The Green Weenie is a green painted rubber replica of a hot dog which Pirate fans have been using jokingly to hex the opposition this season.
1977 E. Reimer I'm going to order Lion 26 Jack. Well, she gave him the green wienie. Bob. The what? Jack... The green wienie. She broke up with him.
1987 C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings xxvii. 181 Willie had been doomed. Guys who were shiny-new or mossbacked-short always ate the green weenie.
1990 M. Lendler Just Working Life vi. 142 They..develop means to ‘stick the green weenie’ to those who violate those standards.
1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 18 July (Mag. section) 5 I figure we're all on this earth to get the green wienie.
2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 86 We'd been violently screwed with the Green-Weenie.
2004 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 24 Oct. b7 If bin Laden has bitten the green weenie, it is more likely because of kidney failure than from thermobaric bombs at Tora Bora.
2. Angling. Any of various types of fly having a green colour; spec. a type of simple, wingless fly having a body of bright green chenille.
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1977 T. Hellekson Pop. Fly Patterns 124/1 Matuka, Green Weeny... Thread: Olive... Body: Dubbed olive rabbit fur. Wings: Dyed olive grizzly neck hackles.
1986 D. Hughes Amer. Fly Tying Man. 43/3 Salmon Flies... Green Wienie... Thread: Fluorescent green... Shoulder: Fluorescent green chenille.
1994 Indiana (Pa.) Gaz. 12 Apr. 17/6 You'll be surprised at how many large trout take the Green Weenie.
2000 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. b10 Nothing more than a piece of bright green chenille on a hook, the green weeny looks a little like a fat inchworm and a lot like nothing in nature.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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