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golden shower (plural golden showers)

1. A large, liberal bestowal of money or other financial benefits.
2. (idiomatic, slang, pornography) The act of a person urinating on another, usually for the sexual gratification of one or both persons.

   Synonym: GS

   • 1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 218:

     Among the frequently requested and highly priced practices were the “golden shower” and “brown shower,” being urinated and defecated on in a sexual context.

   • a. 1990, Bizarre Lifestyles, volume 1, number 1, page 53; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray and Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, →ISBN, page 77:

     ULTRA BIZARRE FEMALE: Age 25, seeks to correspond with submissive men on female domination, foot worship, enema, golden shower and anus worship

3. The flowering plant Cassia fistula.

   Synonyms: pudding-pipe tree, golden rain tree, Indian laburnum

   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 7:

     Two elderly women sat knitting on that part of the veranda which was screened from the sun by a golden shower creeper […]

• “golden shower, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

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