frame n.1
1. the body.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Doctor Syntax, Picturesque (1868) 33/1: His frame’s assail’d with fev’rish heats. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Scots Mag. 1 Mar. 68/1: His weary frame is tottering to the grave. | |
 | Memoirs of the Late Capt. Hugh Crow 57: Such was the effect [i.e. of brandy] upon my worn-out frame that I fell insensible. | |
| ‘Friend in Need’ Works (1862) V 307: Did you ever [...] obtain an insight into the mechanism and operations of the human frame? | |
| ‘Artemus Ward’ ‘Burial in Richmond and Resurrection in Boston’ 🌐 Was this frame made to be in bondage? Shall these voices be hushed? Never, never, never! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wolfville 200: One of the Wells-Fargo sports gets a bullet plumb through his frame, an’ is dead. | |
| Toothsome Tales Told in Sl. 19: Nature had favored her with a faultless frame. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 22 Oct. 4/8: I don’t know why yous gets your body in a not about the straw hat push. They’ve got, quit as much rite to prat their frames in if they like. | |
| Zone Policeman 88 235: A burly soldier [...] howling some joyful song with six or seven little ‘Spig’ policemen climbing about his frame. | |
| Aussie (France) 10 Jan. 2/1: A bunch of Diggers were playing it [sc. two-up] near Charleroi when the Prince of Wales blew up. The Prince pushed his frame in and risked ten ‘frogs’ and won. | |
| Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 20 Aug. 11/2: Eventually the model ‘S.M. Herald’ leader will read like this [...] ’E’ll mug himself out of ’is possie yet. ’E’ll prat ’is frame in wunce too often. | |
| North. Standard (Darwin, NT) 29 Jan. 2/4: Those boose is slowly passing through my frame. | |
| Right Ho, Jeeves 36: Bonfires burst out in all parts of the frame. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Dec. 33/2: Something came / An’ got me in the game /An’ so I bogged me frame / Into there. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: You stache your frame back to the P.A. and beef to the gang that the ‘Dark Eagle’ is in port. | |
| Really the Blues 1I: Had that grand and glorious feeling again [...] with ultra-violet rays playing hide-and-seek all through my frame. | |
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 5: Then comes the ‘Whoola’ dancer whose just about a booger, fine frame no parts lame. | |
| Hiparama of the Classics 10: So the Naz and his Buddies [...] run into a little Cat with a bent frame. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 85: frame 1. (fr black sl) the body. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | When Me Was A Boy 144: Woman was doin’ them bes’ fi show off them frame. The two-piece bath suit began to use less an less material. |
2. (US black) a person.
| ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:i 79: frame, n. Person; in the objective case, him, her. ‘He crawled his frame.’. | |
| ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 24 Jan. 9/5: Saw Sam Codgell [...] with a fine ‘frame’. No, I didn’t get her name. | |
| Laughing to Keep from Crying 52: What’s your name, Miss Fine Brown Frame? | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 85: frame 1. (fr black sl) [...] 2. (rare) man who possesses certain characteristics which appeal to homosexuals though he may not be gay himself. |
3. a skeleton or skeletal creature.
| Tommy Atkins of the Ramchunders 33: A raw-boned dejected horse tugged at the hauling rope, and a [...] girl [...] tramped along at his head [...] ‘Pore old swine. Did ’em serve a pore old frame like that. What a blawsted shime’. | |
| Shorty McCabe 40: A pair of animated frames that showed the S. P. C. A. hadn’t got as far as It’ly yet. |
4. (US black) a suit of clothes.
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
5. (US gay) a man, hetero- or homosexual, whose (effeminate) physical make-up appeals to homosexual men.
| DAS 199/1: frame 3. A heterosexual male who looks effeminate and is attractive to homosexuals. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 85: frame 2. (rare) man who possesses certain characteristics which appeal to homosexuals though he may not be gay himself. |
In compounds
(US) a girl with high sex appeal (but supposedly no intelligence).
| Holdenville Dly News (OK) 14 Feb. 3/1: Synonyms for a girl with sex appeal are drape shape, frame dame [etc]. | |
| DAS 199/1: frame-dame n. A girl known only for her sex appeal, and who has little intelligence or personality. |
In phrases
1. (also climb over someone’s frame, climb up someone’s back) to harass or criticize verbally.
| Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 13: climb over one’s frame To scold. | |
| (con. 1940s) Wax Boom 277: I’m not bothering anybody. Why do people come climbing up my back? | |
| 14 Feb. 🌐 I had an elder who climbed my frame because I called our morning service ‘assembly’ instead of ‘morning worship.’. |
2. (US, also climb someone’s ass, jar someone’s frame, rock...) to assault physically.
| Web and the Rock 40: I’ll come right over there and climb your frame. | |
| (con. WWII) Marines! 22: ‘Gallagher, Ahm gonna climb youah frame. On youah feet!’ [...] They fought for fifteen minutes and it must have been a good scrap. | |
| Burn, Killer, Burn! 163: ‘I’ll rock your frame,’ I threatened [...] ‘I’ll jar your frame.’. | |
| Iron Orchard (1967) 137: One of these days a sonofabitch that calls himself Cap Bruner is gonna get his frame clumb. And I mean clumb good. | |
| New Centurions 101: ‘[S]omebody that‘s so pissed off at his landlord or tenant that he‘s ready to climb the ass of anybody that comes through the door’. | |
| 🌐 Bubba, however doesn’t give a shit. When he decides it is time to fight, he is going to try to climb your frame. And he doesn’t care how he does it. |
(N.Z.) to move, to make a sudden journey.
| Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 6/2: ‘Say, old Bluebeard,’ he cried, ‘if you’re anywheres about, hop your frame out.’. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | For the Rest of Our Lives 209: Got fed up after the brigade came back from Gazala [...] So I hopped my frame to Cairo for a spell. |