coat v.
1. to reprimand, to scold.
Lowspeak 41: Coat – to tell off, or to scold, as in ‘I gave him a right coating’. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 269: ‘I’ll be fuckin’ coated for life’. | ||
Deadmeat 249: An American man was coating her [...] ‘I don’t need you disrepectin me.’. | ||
Raiders 113: The judge absolutely coated me for about ten minutes. |
2. to arrest; thus, as n., a suspect.
‘Metropolitan Police Sl.’ in Scotland Yard (1972) 322: coat, have you got a?: intimation of arrest. | ||
Lowspeak 41: Coat – a suspect. |
3. to beat up, to hit.
[ | Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 29 Oct. 7/2: Joe [...] must abandon his habit of conveying she-cattle down into his den, or Joseph will be presented with a ‘coat of many colors’]. | |
Und. Nights 168: It’s him you ought to be coating, not me. | ||
Vinnie Got Blown Away 160: Whack. Got coated off like I never been coated. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 284: To be ‘coated’ or ‘put on the coat’ was street slang for hung out to dry. If someone was coated [...] they would get a hiding. |
4. (Aus.) to ostracize [in Aus. one tugs one’s own lapel as a sign that a given person is not to be trusted].
‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiii 4/3: coated: To be on the outer. Signals are passed on behind an unpopular person’s back by the tugging of one’s coat lapel as a warning to be guarded on what is said. |
5. (US gay) to have vaginal, oral or anal intercourse.
Queens’ Vernacular 87: to insert a cock into a vagina, mouth or anus [...] coat (dated). |
In phrases
1. to beat up, to thrash.
They Drive by Night 71: Give him a good coating in the station. He’ll come his guts. | ||
They Die with Their Boots Clean 5: You’ll give old Hitler a coating. |
2. (UK Und.) to give someone a reprimand.
Signs of Crime 178: Coating, give a Reprimand. |
(Aus.) out of favour; esp. in phr. have/put on the coat, to place someone in a position of disfavour.
Joyful Condemned 92: I happened to say something about that old hag Jess who runs it, and she’s had me on the coat ever since. | ||
‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxviii 10/1: on the coat: A person who is unpopular. | ||
Big Huey 130: A lot of my old mates [...] disapproved totally of what was happening and put me on the coat. | ||
Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Coat. As in ‘to put on the coat’, ie send to Coventry. To isolate and ignore someone. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 44/2: coat n. on the coat shunned, ostracised, ignored by other inmates. put (one) on the coat to shun, ignore, ostracise. |