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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... incidents as refugees from both sides have begun reconstructing houses.” “Muslim Homes Explode in Serb Area,” Ariz. Republic & Phoenix Gaz. , 11 Nov. 1996 , at A17. • “A series of motivational meetings were held in the early evening.” Joanna Schmitcke , “Lifetime of Wrestling Pays Off,” Sacramento Bee , 2 Feb. 1997 , at N6. • “In the 1960s and 1970s a series of articles were published, sketching out the main characteristics of European class structure and its changes during the postwar decades.” Max Haller , Class Structure in Europe xi (...
sauce n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Adventures of Gil Blas I 11: I have a delicate trout; but those who eat it must pay for the sauce […] After having paid sauce for a supper, which I had so ill digested, I went to the muleteer. 4 ( US ) petrol, gasoline. 1919 E.V. Rickenbacker Fighting Flying Circus xi: Sauce, petrol or gasoline [OED]. 5 ( orig. US ) alcohol, (rarely) drugs. 1935 Cab Calloway ‘Jitter Bug’ [lyrics] Now, here's old Father, a wicked old man, / Drinks more sauce than the other bugs can, / He drinks jitter sauce every morn, / That's why jitter sauce was born. ...
flam n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... 79: Neither puritanical flam nor structural imperfections need stand in the way. 1912 E. Pugh City Of The World 56: But its all the merest fudge and flam, really. 1916 C.J. Dennis ‘Introduction’ Moods of Ginger Mick xi: An' Mick, 'e looks on swank an' style as jist a lot o' flam, / An' snouted them that snouted 'im, an' never give a dam. 2 a lie, a deception. 1665 ‘R.M.’ Scarronides 42: She spake like the Devil's Dam, A flattring Slut, 'twas but a flam. a. 1680 Rochester ‘In Defense of Satire’ Works of Rochester ( 1721 ) 62: With some...
trolley n. (US drugs/prison) Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...commodities around a jail. 1904 ‘ Number 1500’ Life In Sing Sing 254: Trolley . Wire or string used for passing papers, etc., from cell to cell. 1936 D. Maurer ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 127/1: trolley . The secret channels through which dope and other articles are distributed within prisons; sometimes an actual string or wire stretched between cells. 1950 Goldin et al. DAUL 227/1: Trolley. (P) A line by which things are passed by inmates from one cell to another. ‘The screw (guard) just glommed (grabbed) a tab...
scrag v. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...companions were scragged at Tyburn. 1906 E. Pugh Spoilers 289: You'd be pinched an' scragged as safe as 'ouses. At any rate, you'd be put in stir for the rest o' your natural. 1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Aug. 11/4: If Hawley Crippen […] comes to the gallows he will have the distinction of being the first man to be hanged by wireless telegraphy, just as Tawell was the first to be scragged by the ordinary wire. 1936 L. Pound ‘Amer. Euphemisms for Dying’ in AS XI:3 200: Scrag. 1952 (con. 1948 ) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 221: Man wants...
sausage n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...Got the sack! / All along of a dashed German Sossidge. [Ibid.] 124: Lop-sided free trade is all boko, and that's why the Sossidges wins. 1896 ‘'Arry on African Affairs’ in Punch 22 Feb. 93/1: It's clear 'e's no class, that young Sossidge [i.e. the Kaiser]. 1903 Ade ‘An Incident in the “Pansy”’ in In Babel 200: ‘Say, you big sausage, what are you tryin' to do?’ ‘Ho! Sho! It is all in fun. You shouldt not get mat.’ 1909 J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 221/2: Shet up, Sossidge ( Peoples ', 1896 ). Recommendation to a German, noisy in...
blood n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...And Phrases’ in DN IV:iii 231: blood , n. Catsup. 1917 L.A. Times 22 Apr. III 22: ‘Please pass me the blood,’ a returned guardsman is apt to say, pointing to the catsup. 1936 H.W. Bentley ‘Linguistic Concoctions of the Soda Jerker’ in AS XI:1 42: blood . Ketchup. 1946 F. Eikel Jr ‘An Aggie Vocab. of Sl.’ in AS XXI:1 31: blood , n. Catsup. 1949 Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). (c) ( US black ) wine. 1954 ‘Hepster's Dict.’ Mad mag. June 20: blood – wine. 1959 Esquire Nov. 70H: blood : wine. 1960 R.G. Reisner ...
can n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...) 421: ‘Me, I'd like to go to a can-house.’ ‘I'm laying off that. I'm a married man, and I love my wife.’ 1946 Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 22: The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago. 1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New xi: The whole Storyville era when jazz grew up in the canhouses of New Orleans [W&F]. 1965 (con. 1910s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 36: Playing can-house music wasn't too healthy for a young man trying to fnd himself. 1968 (con. mid-late 19C) S. Longstreet ...
crib n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...crib had been cracked in a masterful way. 1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 16: You have […] cracked a crib on your own and planted the stuff. 1917 F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale ( 1918 ) II xi: We'll crack de crib early. 1925 N. Lucas Autobiog. of a Thief 182: In Rugby we cracked one or two ‘cribs’. 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 35: Burglars do often make a reconnaissance before they actually crack a crib. 1950 Goldin et al. DAUL 51/2: Crack a crib. 1. To break into a safe. 2. To break into a building, apartment, or room...
raw adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Algiers Motel Incident 136: I think I'm getting a raw deal. 1974 D. Goines Daddy Cool ( 1997 ) 92: They believed that he was getting a raw deal. It wasn't his fault that his stepsister started selling pussy. 1983 A-Team Storybook 16: Some of the boys feel we're getting a raw deal, that people don't take enough notice of us. 1999 Indep. Rev. 26 July 4: Patients get a raw deal from private health care. 2000 Daily Express 20 May 105: Randi is getting a raw deal. rawskin ( n. ) [sense 1 above + skin n. 1 (3b)] ( Aus. ) an inexperienced...
bum adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...please advise me what course to pursue, that I may get up in the world again. c. 1880 ‘ O'Reilly ’ [US army poem] He drank with all the rookies, and shoved his face as well, / The whole outfit is on the bum, / O'Reilly's gone to Hell. 1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XI n.p.: Love has put your optics on the bum. 1910 ‘ O. Henry ’ ‘Babes in the Jungle’ Strictly Business ( 1915 ) 40: I'm afraid your art education is on the bum. 1926 J. Black You Can't Win 257: I gathered from it that his cash register ‘bane on the bum.’ Something got wrong...
thing n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...but a black thing bay-bee. 2005 P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 19: [She] would […] so love to do the whole Australia thing. 4 in derog. uses. (a) ( US ) a male homosexual. 1928 E. Milton To Kiss the Crocodile 142: ‘How I should have survived the summer without this dear thing, I don't know.’ The dear thing was Roy. 1932 J.L. Kuethe ‘ Johns Hopkins Jargon ’ in AS VII:5 337: thing — an effeminate man; a pervert. (b) ( Aus. prison ) a term of abuse for an informer. 1990 Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl....
bacon n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...at last.’ 1924 C.S. Montanye ‘The Dizzy Dumb-Bell’ in Top Notch 1 Aug. [Internet] He's an egg that's brought home the bacon! 1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 76: It cannot fail to bring home the gravy. 1937 J. Curtis There Ain't No Justice 46: I know big blokes, real gamblers. Blokes what'll speculate a thousand pound on a good chance and you can meet 'em, see. Just so long as you bring home the bacon. 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 89: Johnny Sharp stopped me and said, ‘Brought home the bacon?’ 1958 Murtagh & Harris ...
hole n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... 72: A Gentleman who had married a lady, and instead of a Maidenhead, found her endu'd with an extraordinary Capacity […] thank'd God, That now he had a Hole to put his Head in . c. 1731 ‘You Fair, Who Play Tricks’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads ( 1897 ) V 197: And for G--'s sake take care to grease well the Machine. / For your Thing is so stiff, and my Hole is so small. a. 1742 W. Somerville ‘A Dainty New Ballad’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets ( 1810 ) XI 207/1: At length a youth full smart, Who oft by magic art Had div'd in many a hole […] He'd...
bone n. 1 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...dance of death and waltz into eternity under the auspices of the resident surgeon. bone-house ( n. ) 1 a coffin. 1836–7 Dickens Pickwick Papers ( 1999 ) 568: Lie in bed — starve — die — Inquest — little bone-house. 1936 L. Pound ‘American Euphemisms for Dying’ in AS XI:3 201: Bone house. 2 ( also bone factory ) a house or vault in which the bones of the dead are piled up, a charnel-house. 1811 J. Poole Hamlet Travestie III i: The body to the bone-house take. 1832 Egan Bk of Sports 61: I might be conveyed to a bone-house to be owned,...
flash adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...a stand. 1811 Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Flash . Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The gentleman saw what I was about, and therefore I could not pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief. 1823 Byron Don Juan canto XI line 133: A thorough varmint and a real swell, Full flash, all fancy, until fairly diddled, His pockets first, and then his body riddled. 1832 Egan Bk of Sports 8: Leaving his lordship almost as much in the dark […] as if he had not been listening to the flash story of...
hot adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...It's a curse. My own father, had a hot condition most of his later years, he couldn't stay away from it. (c) ( US drugs ) of an injection or drug, likely to cause death. 1936 D. Maurer ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 122/1: hot shot . Cyanide or other fast-working poison concealed in dope to do away with a dangerous or troublesome addict. 1960 C. Cooper Jr Scene ( 1996 ) 202: Maybe one of 'em [i.e. an addict] slipped that hot pill in Hodden's fix. (d) healthy; usu. as a negative, e.g. ‘not feeling too hot’. 1940 W.R....
dog n. 2 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...almost guys. 1981 J. Sullivan ‘Big Brother’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] She's a bit of an old dog, but there again you know I quite like old dogs. 1992 A. Duff One Night Out Stealing 104: Might be worth a try again some other time. Nah, too much of a dog to look at. 1999 Observer 29 Aug. 2: Freddy Shepherd and vice-chairman Douglas Hall […] condemned Newcastle women as ‘dogs’ during a drinking session. 2005 P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 6: Tina was a dog basically and I'm being hord on dogs there. 10 (...
head n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... ( n. ) 1 ( orig. US ) a shop specializing in drug paraphernalia [the first such emporium was San Francisco's Psychedelic Shop, opened in Jan. 1966 ] . 1968 Current Sl. III:1 8: Head shop , n. Store that sells illegal drugs. 1970 Journal of Health and Social Behavior XI 333: In this writer's opinion one could learn more about the drug culture by spending the price of this compendium on a ticket to Easy Rider and a trip to a head shop. 1977 C. McFadden Serial 14: The back of a remodelled ark he shared with a head shop. 1984 S. King ...
Bibliography, Selected Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas (Hartford, CT 1883) Swell, Jeremy, Gent. , The Tailors' Revolt (London 1805) Swift, Jonathan A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation in Works XI (London 1766) —— Journal to Stella (written 1710–13) [London 1901] —— Miscellanies Vol. V (London 1736) —— poems see Chalmers, Alexander (ed.) Vol. XI —— Polite Conversation (London 1738) —— Tale of a Tub (London 1704) Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney 1842– ) Sykes, Arlene (ed.) Five Plays for Stage, Radio and Television (Queensland,...