slide n.
1. (UK Und.) a money box as used in a shop [the user slides it off and on a shelf].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 85/1: All being ‘square’, she flew over onto the counter and ‘grannied’ for the ‘slide’, but that was no ‘bottle’, it was ‘screwed’. |
2. (UK Und.) a purse [it slides in and out of the pocket].
| Police! 320: A purse ... A skin, slide, elastic, poke. |
3. (US black) in pl., shoes.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Hobo Lingo’ in AS I:12 652: Slides—shoes. | |
| Milk and Honey Route 209: Kicks – Shoes. Also called slides. | |
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 102: His trods were stashed in a deuce of slides that asked his laces about the weather. | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 818: slides – Shoes. | |
 | (con. 1920s-30s) Deep Ellum 61: [C]lothing from The Model Tailors was a status symbol. ‘They had to have [...] Good slides [shoes], a good hat and a Model Tailors suit’. |
4. (US Und.) the member of the three-card monte team who keeps an eye out for police and warns the rest so that all can slide off in time.
| On the Stroll 123: The unflappable three-card monte team, consisting of Sweet Rudy shuffling, Bluejay as shill, and Prince as slide. |
5. (US black) a trouser pocket [? SE side; or one slides things into it].
| ‘Prison Parlance’ in AS IX:1 27: slide. A trouser pocket. | |
| ‘Good-Doing Wheeler’ in et al. Life (1976) 76: She fluttered her eye, brushed his fly, / And beat his back slide for a grand. | |
| Howard Street 67: He done had a bath and a rubdown and he got money in his slide. | |
| Third Ear n.p.: slide n. pants pocket; e.g. 1 got $50 in my slide. | |
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 42: I off the other nineteen, pay Max back his five hundred dollars and take the other fourteen hundred dollars for my slide [pocket]. |
6. (US campus) an easy course [one slides through it].
| Campus Sl. Oct. 5: slide – easy; They tell me Health Ed 41 is a slide (course). | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. |
7. (drugs) a syringe, used for injecting narcotic drugs [the sliding plunger that is part of the syringe].
| Prison Sl. 82: Slide A syringe that utilizes a plunger type mechanism to inject the drug. |
8. (US police) an escape from problems, a ‘free pass’ .
| Good Cop Bad Cop 127: The Queens sergeant chose to believe that someone had stolen the police union card from Dowd. [...] The cop was given a slid. |
In compounds
a form of confidence trick whereby the trickster takes the victim’s money and ‘slides’, i.e. vanishes.
| ‘Prison Mass’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 163: The next time it would be something in the confidence rackets — the ‘slide game’ or maybe just some plain ‘lemon pool’. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues VI 249/2: To do a slide up the board (or straight), verb. phr. (venery). — To copulate. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 39: Bistoquer. To copulate; ‘to have a slide up the board’. |
(US) to run off, leaving one’s debts unpaid.
| N.Y. Daily Trib. 28 Sept. 2/5: William Henry Basteed, Proprietor of the Buffalo Penny Press, has left that city after cheating his washer-woman and effecting a fair amount of kindred petty villainies. [...] He has probably taken the ‘Sabine slide.’. | |
| Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Apr. 2/2: If John [...] takes a Sabine slide with the money, what is the draft good for? | |
| Buffalo Morn. Exp. (NY) 18 Mar. 2/2: It looks a little now as if the Democratic Party intended to give Pierce the ‘Sabine slide’. | |
| Cleveland Dly Leader (OH) 3 Aug. 2/4: To obviate the necessity of these ‘sabine slides’ [...] I have have long resolved [etc]. | |
| Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (PA) 2 Oct. 4/2: Fugitives from a too exacting society formerly made the purifying gymnastic movement — called the ‘Sabine slide’. | |
| St Paul Globe (MN) 2 Dec. 4/2: Texas offered a sort of ‘city of reuge’ for defaulters, thieves, and criminals [...] Such fleeing rascals [...] were said to be ‘taking the Sabine slide!’. |