last adj.
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US black) a lover, a sweetheart.
![]() | Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 22 Aug. 7/6: My last heart beat — (my sweetheart). | |
![]() | Jive and Sl. |
(US prison) the final walk of a condemned man from death row to the execution chamber; also attrib.
![]() | Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 316: She trod the ‘last mile’ bravely, if not with dignity. | |
![]() | Men at Their Worst 46: I firmly believe that the protracted ‘last mile’ walk for condemned men is the worst form of torture that can be applied to them. | |
![]() | ‘Death Row’ in Life (1976) 118: Those are memories from long before my trial, / And now it’s time to walk that last mile. | et al.|
![]() | Lowspeak. |
(US black) death.
![]() | ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
(US prison) a condemned man’s final walk to the execution chamber.
![]() | AS VI:6 439: Last Waltz, n. The final walk of a condemned man; the walk from the death house. | ‘Convicts’ Jargon’ in|
![]() | Amer. Lang. (4th edn) 581: In virtually all American prisons [...] The march to the electric-chair is the last waltz. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | DAUL 122/1: Last waltz, the. The march of the condemned man to gallows, chair, gas chamber, or other place of execution. | et al.|
![]() | Prison Sl. 105: Last Waltz A condemned prisoner’s walk from the death cell to the execution chamber. |