jelly roll

jelly roll
n
American
a.
a woman's sex organs
b.
sexual intercourse
c.
a woman seen as a sexual partner, sex object or sweetheart
d.
a male lover or seducer
All these terms, popularised by their use in jazz, blues and rock music, derive from black American argot of the late 19th cen-tury. A jelly roll is literally a jam or Swiss roll. The triple metaphor implied in the first three senses derives from the rolling mo-tion, the supposed resemblance of the cake to the vulva, and the notion of 'sweet reward'. In the case of the fourth sense, which is less common but may historically antedate the others, the word represents the sweet element of 'sweetheart'.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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