horseshoe n.
1. as horsehoes, a nickname for a very lucky person.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Horseshoes’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 256: You got a swell girl, Dick! [...] You’re mighty lucky to cop her out — you old Horseshoes, you! |
2. a propensity for good luck.
| (con. 1920s) Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 204: You got too many horseshoes. | |
| Negro Youth xvii: ‘As soon as we can get you on the [tennis] courts we want you. We haven’t forgotten the ‘horse shoes’ you had last year. Too bad you won’t try to take it out on me in Ping-pong. On a table I’m a champion and I know it.’. |
3. (Aus.) a bar counter.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Line of Sight [ebook] There were a few dockworkers leaning on the horseshoe. |
In phrases
to be notably lucky.
| Carlito’s Way 56: He was made in the thirties, always seemed to be on the winning side in all the wars, a survivor. [...] A crazy ginso with a horseshoe up his ass. |