2 definitions by Lonnie J.
Being on the receiving end of any act causing such great displeasure that the recipient cannot even bear to describe the act. First heardin reference to the formation of the Republican Party in Jackson, Michigan in the 1850s, the phrase referred to a sexual practice--apparently improvised during festivities related to the GOP's founding--so foul and vulgar that its participants swore never to reveal its nature. Believed by some scholars to involve the genital crank.
According to numerous academic sources, the first draft of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address included a reference to the Confederate Army having "really gotten hometowned in Jackson out there."
by Lonnie J. August 29, 2006
A device invented in late 1840s Michigan that fell out of use by the end of the 19th century. No sketches or diagrams of the device are known to exist, though its name and contemporaneous accounts from diaries, letters and other primary sources suggest that its use was sexual in nature. To wit, "Ere I been Gone Now Two Moons marchng with Genneral Grant and Tis All I can Bear to Bee without the Warm Comfort of Your Bed as you Work the Genital Crank in the Night-time," one Union soldier wrote to his mistress in 1863. References to the "Sex Axe," thought to be a component of the genital crank, buttress this theory. The genital crank is also thought to have played a role in the mysterious sexual act known as "Getting Hometowned in Jackson."
by Lonnie J. August 29, 2006