Boston, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Boston adj.

In compounds

Boston bum (n.)

(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.

Boston strawberries (n.) (also Bostons) [the city’s stereotyped dish. The other stereotype is meanness; thus railroad use Boston quarter, a nickel or dime tip]

(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.

Boston tea party (n.)

(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.

Boston version (n.)

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.

Boston woodcock (n.) [analogous with SE Scotch woodcock, hard-boiled eggs chopped up, mixed with anchovy sauce, and then laid on slices of hot buttered toast. The foodstuffs here are staples of the Boston area]

(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.

In phrases

Boston labor and Chicago capital (n.)

(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’.