trumpet n.
1. the nose.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 2 Feb. 2/4: A flush hit on the trumpet again brought him to grass. | ||
The Hop of Fashion in Darkey Drama 4 Act I: Go way, ole Indian rubber, or I’ll burst your trumpet. | ||
Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective May 🌐 I [...] waved a twenty beneath his trumpet. ‘Folding money, uncle.’. | ‘Dead Man’s Guilt’
2. (UK Und.) a vain man.
Vocabulum. |
3. an act of breaking wind.
My Secret Life (1966) III 433: I [...] used to pull open my arse-hole to lessen the noise of my trumpet. | ||
Dreamcatcher 77: Man, that was some trumpet-blast he blew, wasn’t it? And the stink! |
4. the telephone.
Signs of Crime 205: Trumpet The telephone. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to die.
(con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 292: Trumpet-Cleaning, Gone: Dead. |