cornhole
cornhole Lexical Profile
cornhole Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American A lawn game in which players take turns throwing small bags filled with dried corn kernels or plastic pellets at a raised, angled board with a hole in the far end.
"We set up the boards in the backyard and played several rounds of cornhole during the family barbecue."
North American The anus (used as vulgar slang).
"The comedian's routine relied heavily on crude,juvenile jokes about the cornhole."
• verb
North American To engage in anal intercourse with someone (used as vulgar slang).
"The gritty prison drama used coarse, unvarnished slang, including threats to cornhole new inmates."
Word Nuance & Usage
While entirely family-friendly in American English when referring to the popular backyard beanbag toss game, the word also has an older, vulgar slang sense as a noun and verb; speakers should rely on clear context to avoid unintended double entendres.
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Word Origin & Etymology
A 20th-century American English compound of 'corn' and 'hole'; the lawn game sense arose in the American Midwest from the practice of tossing cloth bags filled with dried corn kernels through a circular hole in a wooden board.