afters n.
1. pudding, dessert.
![]() | Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 3/1: Afters (Devon), Sweets — pies and puddings. | |
![]() | N&Q 12 Ser. IX 345: Afters. A second dinner-course, as rice or stewed figs. | |
![]() | None But the Lonely Heart 301: There’s some afters coming up. | |
![]() | Grass in Piccadilly 169: There was a lot of wonderful stuff prepared for ‘afters’. | |
![]() | Cockney 290: A Cockney woman is unlikely to ask the greengrocer for goosgogs [...] but quite likely to inform her husband that such a combination is to be the ‘afters’ for dinner. | |
![]() | Breath of French Air (1985) 192: The party wouldn’t be complete if the children didn’t have custard and jelly for afters. | |
![]() | Right to an Answer (1978) 40: What’s for afters? | |
![]() | Little of What You Fancy (1985) 565: They still had afters to come: the Christmas pudding and brandy. | |
![]() | Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Well, what about the old afters eh? | ‘Christmas Crackers’|
![]() | Dandy Comic Library Special No. 210 11: And what’s for afters? | |
![]() | It Was An Accident 184: Maybe they wanted to purchase a bit of Blue Mountain coffee for afters. |
2. in fig. use of sense 1, an extra, a bonus, both negative and positive.
![]() | Hell on Hoe Street 262: He went down and they gave him a kicking for afters. |
3. after-hours drinking in a public house.
![]() | ‘English Und. Sl.’ in Variety 8 Apr. n.p.: Having afters — Staying in saloon to drink after time (closing). |