plate n.1
1. (orig. UK Und.) money.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: plate money, silver, prize [...] when the plate comes in, when money comes to hand. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocabulum. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 8 Apr. 3/2: Dippers, when they rook a rocket / If the sack be brim of plate — / All they has to do is blew it . | |
| Navy Explained 102: Sailormen [...] probably coin more words for money than any other body of men [...] Sheckles, iron men, washers, clackers, jack, cart wheels, simoleons, kopex, mazuma, palm grease, evil metal, oro, jingles, liberty, bait, sou, armor, plate, holy stones, joy berries, and many others. |
2. (orig. US) a gramophone record [resemblance].
| Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1: None of these plates will be senders. | |
 | ‘Fifth Estate Vocab.’ AS XII:2 100: Behind the microphone they [i.e. gramophone records] are referred to variously as discs, E.T.’s, plates, platters, wax and cuts. | |
| Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n.p.: hot circle or hot plate: hot phonograph record by a swing band. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Notes for Gloss. of Barbadian Dial. 88: Plate. Sometimes applied to a gramophone record. | |
| ‘Road to the Richaes’ 🎵 Finally i got a break and cut my first plate. | |
| Guardian Rev. 27 July 2: In parts of Africa they call records ‘plates’. Someone I met in the street might say: ‘Yeah, I’ve got some plates. Come and have a look’. |
3. a record deck [resemblance].
| Weed (1998) 178: He laid the piece by Lateef and Byrd onto the plate. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus.) a derog. term for an Asian, orig. Vietnamese.
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 272: plate face an Asian. |
In phrases
to eat (with), to have a meal (with).
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | |
| Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1995) 55: Ahm hungry. Feel lak Ah ain’t dirtied uh plate dis week. | |
| ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ Novels and Stories (1995) 1006: Sweet Back had not dirtied a plate since the day before. | |
| Pimp 90: I haven’t dirtied a plate since noon. |
(US black) to lose one’s temper, to get sufficiently annoyed to resort to physical violence.
| ‘Dropping Plates’ 🎵 Sickness [album] Because I’m coming fast / Planting thoughts in your mind / And dropping plates on your ass. |
to share a meal with.
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
suffering from venereal disease.
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Plate. [...] He is in for the plate; he has won the heat, i.e. is infected with the venereal disorder: a simile drawn from horse-racing. |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
(W.I.) a dish of boiled bananas.
| cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). |
(US) to achieve a success, a coup.
| Checkers 57: They’ve been laying dead with it all the meeting [...] but to-day [...] they’re going to put it over the plate. | |
| Commoner (Lincoln, NE) 2 Oct. 1/1: Suppose that Mr taft [...] should be approached by Mr Dupont thus: ‘I am one of the ten men [...] who have put you over the plate’ . | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 23 Oct. 28/2: [Of] all the editorials he [...] had ever penned [...] a few that Thomas put over the plate. |