Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see curbstone broker under curbstone adj.

(US black) to lecture, to give advice.

1992

J. Mowry Way Past Cool 7: Next time he come by curb-preachin you, tell him to fuck off.

see curbstone sailor under curbstone adj.

see curbstone setter under curbstone adj.

see separate entries.

see curbstone broker under curbstone adj.

(US und.) to beat up on the pavement.

2021

S.A. Crosby Razorblade Tears 34: It had taken everything in him not to chase the guy down, drag him out his car, and curb-stomp him.

(US) to dismiss from employment.

1991

B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 62: I had seen it happen [i.e. caught breaking company rules] to a couple of careless workers and they were promptly put to the curb.

overwhelmed, defeated.

1911

S. Ford Torchy 60: Talk about your self-acting press agents! He had the bunch shoved to the curb.

1. (also to the curve) ugly, distasteful, unpleasant.

1985		T.R. Houser Central Sl. 17: curve, to the The consequences of smoking weed, using cocaine, etc. whereby the individual ‘wastes’ himself and ‘gets all skinny.’ ‘We don’t hang with those niggers, they’re to the curve.’.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
1997–2000		Da Bomb 🌐 29: To the curb: The person looks terrible. I saw Phyllis yesterday and boy she looked to the curb in that bright green dress.

2. (US campus) feeling sick and vomiting as a result of drinking [the polite person steps off the pavement and carefully vomits into the gutter].

1989

P. Munro Sl. U. 33: What’s Mark doing? — Oh, he’s to the curb. He drank too much.