glass n.2
1. (US Und., also glassware) a diamond.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Marvel 12 Nov. 6: I don’t want the bits of glass. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Flies on the Ceiling’ in Detective-Dragnet May 🌐 I’m kinder curious to have a look at a dame what is so dumb as to let her new chauffeur hold two-hundred-thousand dollars worth of social glassware. | |
 | ‘Believe Me’ in Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 15 Dec. 12/3: Was that Alston Burleigh who was seen pricing some of that Glass that costs? | |
| High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 290: The safety-deposit boxes are lousy with glass. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Hoodlums (2021) 115: Plenty dough. All that glass is real. | |
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
| Layer Cake 66: They stick the glass in a padded envelope and have it collected from wherever they happen to be eating lunch that day. |
2. (UK Und.) any form of jewellery.
| Phenomena in Crime 156: Jewels, known in the racket as ‘glass’. |
3. (drugs) a hypodermic needle, early versions of which were made of glass.
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Glass — [...] hypodermic needle. |
4. the penis [one ‘blows’ glass to make it larger].
| Lowspeak. |
5. in drug names [the shininess of the powders].
(a) methamphetamine.
| Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction in Maurer Lang. Und. (1981). | |
| Drug Lang. and Lore. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Glass — [...] methamphetamine. |
(b) heroin.
| ONDCP Street Terms 10: Glass — Heroin. |
6. (US drugs) a pipe for smoking crack cocaine.
| Cherry 233: Gary had a $20 crack rock. [...] Gary said, ‘You got any glass?’ I had a bowl in the car but that wasn’t what he meant. |
In phrases
to perform fellatio on a man.
| (con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 28: Here was one ginney getting his glass blown [...] and another ginney comes in and gives him three in the pump. | |
| Lowspeak. |
(UK und.) carrying a bottle as an offensive weapon.
| (con. WW2) London E1 (2012) 278: Jimmy pulled out the bottle. ‘Look out [...] ’e’s glassed up’. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to get drunk.
| London Standard 28 Nov. 3/5: They were in the habit of ‘getting a glass’ on Saturday nights though [...] Marshall was nearly always drunk. |
| [ | | Western Champion and General Advertiser (Barcaldine, Qld.) 6 Mar. 11/3: ‘Wot's yours? Mine’s a British beer. Wot are you ’aving, ’Arry?’ ’Oh, mine's a glass of steak and onions’]. |
| News (Adelaide) 11 Jan. 5/7: The scientist, honest man, suggested that his glass of lunch was more important than this sort of thing. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Argus (Melbourne) 28 Dec. 4S/1: Three pounds of humanity gets a glass of lunch in the hospital’s one humidicrib. | |
| Front Room Boys Scene iv: Been down the pub for lunch? [...] ‘Yeah, had a glass of steak with Barry Anderson.’. | |
| Gone Troppo (1969) 112: At the moment, he’s having a Glass of lunch . |
(US) a tall, thin person.
| Rumble on the Docks (1955) 287: ‘Who they stomped?’ ‘A tall glass of water they call Wimpy.’. |
(N.Z. prison) a pornographic magazine.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 78/1: glass painting book n. a pornographic magazine. |
(orig. US) imprisoned, arrested.
| Hand-made Fables 22: The two Sprouts were kept under Glass. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. |
to use a broken glass or bottle as a weapon in a fight, typically in a public house.
| (con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 284: Using the glass – using broken glass in a fight. It was a much more sensible way to fight than carrying a weapon because you could make out it wasn’t planned. |