Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see under bananas adj.

see pump iron under iron n.

(W.I.) to beat severely.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

1. (orig. US black) to hit hard and without warning.

1971		F. Hilaire Thanatos 167: You’ve probably heard them called ‘low-riders.’ [...] three of them drove on me yesterday and said I had to be their kid.
1977		E. Bunker Animal Factory 139: I needed him to stand around and look mean. I gotta drive on some fool.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 236: drive on (one) Hit one quickly or unexpectedly.

2. (US) to trick, to deceive.

1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 334: Chilly had pictured an ageing player driving on his dippy mother through this most obvious soft spot.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 106: Terms like to [...] drive on someone mean just that – to do unto others before they do you.

to snore.

1738		Swift Polite Conversation 80: He fell asleep, and snored so loud, that we thought he was driving his Hogs to Market.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: To drive one’s hogs, to snore, the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike the notes of that animal.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1873,		Sl. Dict.

to snore.

1836		T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 35: When he [...] heerd him snore out a noise like a man drivin pigs to market.
1937		Bath Chron. 21 Apr. 5/5: To my knowledge nothing has been done for downright snoring Drive-the-Pigs home slumber.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 39/2: drive the pigs home to snore; in England the phrase is: ‘drive the pigs to market’.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

to be homosexual.

c.2003

Nif ‘I’d Give Anything’ at Realm of the Shadow.com 🌐 Yep, you’d think I’m your average female teenager right? Wrong. You see I’m gay. I’m a lesbian. I drive on the other side of the road. I’m interested in girls.

to go out for a drive with one’s family.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

see under brewer’s horse n.

see under car n.

(US campus) to vomit, spec. when hugging the circular (i.e. steering-wheel-shaped) lavatory bowl and vomiting therein; note one-off extrapolation in cit. 2006.

1982		W. Safire What’s The Good Word? 303: The most descriptive phrase I ever heard [...] for upchucking was ‘driving the porcelain bus.’.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 5: Even popular Bazzerisms like ‘driving the porcelain bus’, ‘shouting down the great white telephone’, or ‘having a Technicolour yawn’ are rare. Most good Australians just ‘chuck up’, and carry on drinking.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 73: Where’s Frank? — he’s in the john driving the bus.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 drive the porcelain bus v 1. to vomit. (‘I drove the porcelain bus last time I ate that.’).
2006		S. Paterson Down at Flathead 128: But that was then; as for now, he was well into the bag and headed for the white porcelain bus.
2016		N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] VITAL AUSSIE VERNACULAR Vomit: 1. Up and under 2. Chunder 3. The technicolour yawn 4. Barking at the lawn 5. Driving the porcelain bus.

see under turkey n.¹