Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to bet heavily against a boxer, a racehorse etc.

1873

Sl. Dict.

2. (orig. milit.) to assign to a job or other situation; to schedule (a task, an appointment).

1866		Sportsman 1 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] She was evidently in bad health, for she was slated to see the doctor.
1904		Montana News (Lewistown, MT) 24 Aug. n.p.: Welch [wants] the same, providing he is slated for superintendant.
1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 31: Terence was slated for picket duty.
1916		Day Book (Chicago) 15 July 12/1: Slim Salee is slated to sign a contract with the Giants tomorrow.
1929		(con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 40: The first ones slated to go got real snooty about it.
1937		‘Boxcar Bertha’ Sister of the Road (1975) 204: I’ve been slated for an exit lots of times, but so far I’ve beaten every rap.
1946		J. Evans Halo in Blood (1988) 227: Then I started shooting off my mouth, and I was slated to leave this life.
1953		‘William Lee’ Junkie (1966) 151: Roy was slated to follow up to Riker’s Island.
1969		M. Puzo Godfather 153: Twenty minutes later he was on an Italian freighter slated for Sicily.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 197: Babe was slated to fight an eighteen-year-old kid six inches taller than he was.
1986		S. King It (1987) 83: Ricky Lee knew he was slated to spend the next six or eight months in Colorado Springs.
1993		T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 148: Window’s special ed buddy, Paul Palmer, who was slated for this honor, had an epileptic seizure in his bed and suffocated.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 178: We were slated to check out and head south.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 155: ‘They had me slated for it’ [i.e. a job].

3. (US) to identify (lit. to write a name on a slate).

1922

Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 6 Sept. 2/1: Federal agents yesterday arrested two Negroes believed to be active in drug traffic. The men are ‘slated’ as Melvin Mullin [...] alias —‘Big Boy’ [etc].