Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US prison) one who poses as being above their social station.

1960

(con. 1950-1960) R.A. Freeman Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 16: Boston bum – one of those superior fellows; a highbrow poser.

(US) two unmarried women co-habiting; the presumption is of their lesbianism.

1965		H. Howe Gentle Americans 83: [H]ouseholds consisting of two ladies, living sweetly and devotedly together, Such an alliance I was brought up to hear called a ‘Boston marriage’.
1975		The Ladder 13-14 39/2: [A]ll sexual afairs with another gay person could also come under the same category of a ‘Boston Marriage’.
1981		L. Faderman Surpassing the Love of Men 191: In his treatment of the relationship between Olive and Verena, [Henry] James is describing a Boston marriage [Simes:DLSS].
1984		J. Grahn Another Mother Tongue 159: [A] ‘Boston marriage’, as the secret Lesbian bond has been called in that city [Simes:DLSS].
1996		R. Stevenson Chain of Fools 50: [A] ‘Boston marriage’, one of those nineteenth-century institutions even the religious Emersonians made room for in their expansive universe’ [Simes:DLSS].
2001		C. Moore Sunshine & Rainbows 85: Two remarkable women, they were lifelong companions and certainly could be classified as Romantic Friends, or as living in a Boston Marriage, but were they lesbians? [Simes:DLSS].

(US) baked beans.

1884		N.Y. Weekly 23 June n.p.: ‘Give me a plate of beans,’ he said to the waiter. ‘One plate of Boston strawberries,’ yelled that functionary.
1889		Pittsburgh Dispatch (PA) 26 Jan. 9/7: ‘Bostons’ is the rather appropriate name for beans.
1902		N.-Y. Trib. section II 27 July 2: While you wait you hear a bare armed waiter roar down a passage, ‘Sind up the goat’. That’s easy. You know he wants more butter. Then he cries, ‘Beef an’’ and you know that. ‘Plate o’ Bostons’ isn’t hard, either.
1931		San Quentin Bulletin Jan. 11: A waiter came along calling ‘strawberries’ and we gullibly pushed our plate out - to have it filled with red beans.
2001		ACalendar members.aol.com 🌐 Reason #1, as to why I seriously considered not including National Baked Bean Month on this month’s calendar. I know Beans! about Boston Strawberries.

(US) sadomasochistic activity that also invoves human excrement.

1987

personal ad in restroom Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 43: Quiet homemaker looking for someone to share Boston tea parties.

1. an (over-)intellectualized, affected version.

1900		S.F. Examiner 25 Feb. 30/6: ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / [Boston version] / Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific.
1910		Reporter-Times (Martinsville, IN) 4 July 3/6: Mother Goose, Boston Version / Thomas, the male offspring of a Scotch musician / Feloniously appropriated a quadruped porkine.

2. (US) a bowdlerized version, usu. theatre: a cleaned up version of risqué script or performance.

1901		Boston Eve. Transcript (MA) 20 May 11/6: apollo did not blush / Dignified Gayety a Characteristic of the Boston Version of a Beer Garden.
1938		H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: ‘The Boston version’ [...] ‘Clean it up, the cops are out there’.
2012		W. Keyser ‘Carny Lingo’ in http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Boston Version — Cleaned-up version of a strong show routine.

(US) pork and beans.

1937		Hench Collection in DARE I 346/2: In a Philadelphia restaurant he ordered something that seemed good and not expensive — Boston Woodcock, the menu called it. It turned out to be pork and beans .
2001		D.E. Baron ‘Language is the Enemy’ 🌐 Foods are often the subject of this kind of ethnic allusion to inferiority [...] Scotch woodcock is actually anchovies on toast, Boston woodcock is pork and beans, and Bombay duck is curried fish.

(US short order) pork and beans.

1899

Ft Wayne News (IN) 2 Feb. 7/1: Bowery Eating House Lingo [...] Pork and beans, ‘Boston labor and Chicago capital’.