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bend v. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...1928 V. Palmer Passage 142: Been bending his elbow a bit too much lately, I reckon. c. 1935 in W.C. Fields By Himself ( 1974 ) 155: The least I can do is to toast to your health and happyness, so time out, old pal – while I bend my elbow to you. 1946 C.S. Montanye ‘Opals Are Unlucky’ in Thrilling Detective Jan. [Internet] It was still gray and cheerless, the kind of a day that called for some elbow bending. 1955 ‘ Ed Lacy ’ Best that Ever Did It ( 1957 ) 143: Their roomers, who were just coming in from their Saturday night elbow-bending. ...
blind n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...paying for scalps. 1917 All Abaht It (London) ( 1919 ) Feb. 62: What about getting it – ‘one on the blind’? [AND]. 1929 J.L. Moore Canine King 30: The dog is cast off ‘on the blind’ to use the expression by which a sheep-man admits his own impotence [AND]. 1936 I.L. Idriess Cattle King 63: He had taken up country on the ‘blind’, without ever having seen it. 1960 D. Mc Lean Roaring Days 62: When you're on opal country […] you have to sink ‘on the...
dog n. 2 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend III 260: The unconquerable dog said to himself, ‘The day will come that I will tell her how I have risked my soul for her; how I have played the villain for her’. 1864 A.F. Hill Our Boys 166: You drunken dog! 1878 J.H. Nicholson Opal Fever 5: Dog! […] dog, that you are! 1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water II 5: You dog with the teeth […] you will be hanged like a dog. 1898 E. Dyson ‘Dead Man's Lode’ Below and On Top [Internet] He was a dog, a mean hound, but he didn't look it, an' he was a good miner....
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
...1888) Moore, Bob Don't Call Me a Crook (London 1935) Moore, Briscoe From Forest to Farm (London 1969) Moore, Bruce A Lexicon of Cadet Language Royal Military College, Duntroon 1983–1985 (Canberra 1993) —— Gold! Gold! Gold! The Language of the 19th-century Australian Gold Rushes (Melbourne 2000) Moore, Charles CB Language in Great Britain (London 1981) Moore, Frank Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution (New York 1855) Moore, Pamela Chocolates for Breakfast (London/New York 1957) Moore, Susanne In the Cut (New York 1996) Moore,...
