land v.
1. to influence, to secure (e.g. as a partner); to ensnare into a fraudulent scheme.
Life in the West I 49: [He] was handy on many occasions to Lord Hulse , an Irish ‘Greek,’ in the ‘landing,’ i. e. plundering of flats. | ||
Truth (Perth) 1 Oct. 4/7: When you hear a ‘boshter bloke’ / In the street, / Tell a ‘cobber’ of the ‘tart’ / He’s to meet / You will plainly understand / That his fancy has been fanned / By a ‘clyner’ who will land / Him ‘dead sweet.’ . | ||
‘Art of High Grading’ in Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (PA) Sun. Mag. 2 Jan. 8/1: We didn’t land the Englisher though. The deal was all framed but the Englisher got wised up somehow. | ||
Truth (Brisbane) 13 Feb. 3/4: [T]hey [i.e. Australian girls] are not brazen and forward, like the pommies. The Aussles don't run after the men [...] This is how the pommies landed the Diggers. | ||
Redheap (1965) 103: ‘He’ll do it once too often yet, and get landed properly,’ said George. | ||
Up the Cross 115: hen, if she liked the sound of his voice and what he had to say [...], he’d landed Lady Cynthia. | (con. 1959)||
Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 64: [as 1983]. |
2. to win a bet, to win something by betting.
Dly News (London) 27 Oct. 3/6: The owner and his party [...] had previously got on a good deal of money at long odds, and have ‘landed’ large stake. | ||
General Bounce (1891) 189: ‘I should have landed ‘a Thou’ at least.’. | ||
General Bounce II 114: I landed a hundred gold mohrs by backing his new lot for the Governor-General’s Cup . | ||
Courier (Hobart, Tas.) 20 Mar. 2/3: Had the pace not been so strong, we think Sarawak, who has a great turn of speed, would have just landed the stake. | ||
Sporting Gaz. (London) 5 Dec. 3/2: Some hitherto unknown bottled up animal ‘lands the pot’. | ||
Eastbourne Gaz. 19 May 8/3: [A]n amusing breach of promise case in which the lady tried to secure a husband with £500 a year, and was awarded £25 damages. A well known book-maker summed the matter up concisely by saying she went for a ‘monkey’ and only landed a ‘pony’. | ||
Long Odds II 167: The Earl not only had never stood to win so large a stake [...] but the landing of it had never before been of so dire a necessity. | ||
Fifty Years (2nd edn) I 144: I could have knocked off that minute and landed the coin. | ||
Grenfell Record (NSW) 17 Feb. 1/6: [H]e was about to land a big bet with a young swell who had more money than brains. | ||
Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xvii: I landed this buzz wagon out of a ten dollar pike bet. | ||
Great Aust. Gamble 45: The horse duly landed the money. |
3. to help someone, to aid, to ‘set on one’s feet’.
Rock Ahead II 49: Lord Ticehurst, having done his duty in landing Gilbert, had strolled away . | ||
Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 33: I bought a big covered cart and a good strong horse. AND I WAS LANDED! | ||
Macmillan’s Mag. (London) ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ XL 502: I was landed (was all right) this time without them getting me up a lead (collection). | ||
Punch 10 Jan. 33/2: The Guava Jelly Syndicate? Well, yes, that landed me, I allow. | ||
A Life (1981) Act II: Fifty quid put in me fist, and I mean fifty quid then, not now. We were landed. |
4. (also land out) to hit someone, i.e. to land a blow on; thus land one on v.; lander n., a blow.
Mysteries & Miseries of NY 15: Henry Whitmore [...] ‘picked himself up’ after Big Lize had ‘landed’ him at the foot of Florence’s steps. | ||
Luton Times 4 Dec. 5/2: One these pugnacious gentlemen ‘landed him one’ on the ‘bread basket,’ and doubled him up like a twig. | ||
Des Moines Register (IO) 4 July 1/2: [of a calf] She first landed him one [i.e. a kick] from her hind feet, then [...] butted him with her head. | ||
‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 503: I landed him one on the conk (nose). | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Mar. 6/1: One of the larrikins present made use of some abominable language to her. Upon this she ‘went for him’ in most approved style, and landed him one in the eye. | ||
Hooligan Nights 109: Wiv that she lands him one. | ||
Boy’s Own Paper 16 Feb. 313: I sprang like lightning and landed him one for all I was worth. | ||
Sporting Times 8 Aug. 1/3: If any other man lands out, the fat is in the fire, / He and I are pretty sure to be colliders. | ‘Outside and Declined’||
Jonah 106: I was walkin’ along, quiet as a lamb, when a bloke come up an’ landed me on the jaw. | ||
Dict. Amer. Sl. | ||
There Ain’t No Justice 24: You haven’t landed one yet. Remember what I said. Don’t try to box. | ||
Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 34: There’s the boy [...] ’e’s going to fight everybody till ’is father lands ’im one on the clock. | ||
Saved Scene x: So ’elp me I’ll land yer so bloody ’ard they’ll put me back for life! | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] I’m gonna land him a doughboy right round the lug ’ole before he’s much older! | ‘Tea for Three’||
(con. 1920s) Road to Nab End (2003) 204: I never knew whether or not I was going to get a ‘lander’ to the head from him. |
5. in fig. use, to defeat someone, to ‘dish out’ to someone.
Gloucester Jrnl 11 May 7/3: We know how to land ’em, m’Lud. Give ’em plenty of British Lion and lots of tail-lashing. | ||
Punch Almanack n.p.: Scissors! don’t they goggle and look blue, / When you land them with a regular ‘do’. | ‘Cad’s Calendar’ in||
‘’Arry on a Jury’ in Punch 15 Apr. 177/2: And for chaps as is ‘Gents of the Jury’ [...] it’s landing ’em ’ot. | ||
Sporting Times 7 Apr. 1/4: Well, and what about them? Straight, it gives me the pip [...] to think Jimmy was landed / For behaving like every bloke does when he’s out / With his gal. | ‘A Courting Case in Court’||
Good Companions 131: I’ve been landed properly, I have. | ||
None But the Lonely Heart 104: We might have got our selfs proper landed, there, you know? Specially if the coppers come in. |
6. to arrest, to capture.
Bristol Magpie 20 July 3/1: Git home as quick as you can; / You won't land Mick. | ||
Barkeep Stories 134: ‘I never was landed meself, but I wouldn’t send a guy to de stir if he was to croak t’irty people’. | ||
Wash. Times (DC) 14 Sept. 10/4: Nailed, Glued or Landed – Arrested. | ||
How I Became a Detective 93: Nailed, Glued or Landed – Arrested. | ||
Zone Policeman 88 228: It must be the same with criminals, too, unless your criminal is an amateur or a fool, in which event you will ‘land’ him without the trouble of disguising. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Aug. 47/1: When I come out [of gaol] they landed me in again quick-en-lively. | ||
Handful of Ausseys 201: The doctors are gettin’ wise an’ yer liable ter cum a gutser; yer might be landed fer tryin’ ter fake yerself. | ||
Shipbuilders (1954) 149: The polis is just waitin’, and the likes o’ Peter gets landed. |
7. (US) to gain a victory, a success.
Ade’s Fables 182: When he went out the third time for the same Job, the Voters saw it was no use trying to block him off, so he landed. | ‘The New Fable of The Toilsome Ascent’ in
In phrases
(US) to reprimand severely.
Amer. Thes. Sl. | ||
At End of Day (2001) 167: Bobby Kennedy landed on Hoffa, and his brother made Bobby AG. |
see sense 3 above.
see under shit n.