Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) a fundamentalist Christian; also as adj.

1984		J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 183: I.A.D. is filled with born-agains, and the Chief himself wants a crackdown on officers shacking up, fucking whores, chasing pussy.
1992		D. Jarman diary 9 Aug. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 187: He was having problems with his born-again parents .
1993		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.

see under virgin n.²

(US) cross-eyed.

1906		(con. 1840s) C.P. Low Some Recollections 45: Thomas Hunt [...] was a very short, stout man and was cross-eyed; [...] He said he was ‘born in the middle of the week, looking both ways for Sunday’.
1916		Macy-Hussey Nantucket Scrap Basket 126: ‘Born in the Middle of the Week and Looking Both Ways for Sunday’ – A queer old local expression applied to a very cross-eyed person.
1970		in DARE.

being a complete failure, useless; usu. ext. by ‘never to be worth a groat’.

1738		Swift Polite Conversation 38: Faith, Madam, if it rain’d rich widows, none of them would fall upon me. I’gad I was born under a three Penny Planet, never to be worth a Groat.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Born under a Threepenny Halfpenny Planet, never to be worth a Groat. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1894		G.F. Northall Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 15: He was born under a threepenny planet, i.e. is avaricious, a curmudgeon. Mrs. Chamberlain, West Worc. Words, 1882, quotes Swift [...] ‘If you are born under a threepenny planet you’ll never be worth fourpence’.

(US) illegitimate.

1973

H.B. Allen Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest 1 344: Illegitimate child [...] baby born with burnt feet.