threads n.
(orig. US) clothes; occas. in sing.
Wise-crack Dict. 11/2: New set of threads, new suit of clothes. | ||
🌐 How about them forty-two suits of yours? Boy, they’re classy threads. | ‘Tight Spot’ in Complete Stories 15 Sept.||
Keep It Crisp 141: You wear the keenest threads on the campus. | ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in||
Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 2: The mellow little old frames are showcasing their ‘frantic threads,’ and the cool kitties are riffing in their ‘mad fronts’ and daddy you better believe everything is much straight. | ||
‘You’re Too Hip, Baby’ in Southern (1973) 78: ‘That’s a groovy thread,’ said Murray [...] ‘Oh?’ she looked down at the dress. | ||
Newsweek 7 June 58/1: But a Little Orphan Annie dress by Mary Quant or Caroline Charles will do, or for the male, a set of Mod threads. | ||
Flesh and Blood (1978) 5: He wears work clothes on the job and pimp threads on weekends. | ||
Separate Development 56: In Koelietown, van Dam who rolled in pocket-money, bought clothes on the sales. His zoot suits and fancy threads, he called them. | ||
Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 13: I relished those threads like they were store-bought. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 103: Val’s big comment on my threads was ‘Mmm’. | ||
(con. 1916) A Star Called Henry (2000) 113: Another kid, dressed in the threads of a golfer five times his size. | ||
(con. 1960s-70s) Top Fellas 17/1: The threads were swank but not foppish. | ||
Atomic Lobster 18: I’ll teach him to fuck up my threads! | ||
Alphaville (2011) 333: He was tall and muscular, looked great in gangster threads and gold jewelry. | ||
August Snow [ebook] ‘See you’ve been spendin’ all the taxpayer’s money on threads’. | ||
Eve. Standard (London) 20 Aug. 43/1: Leeson treated himself to some fancy threads. | ||
Widespread Panic 200: The gang’s got up in street threads [...] No Afrika Korps kouture today. | ||
Seven Demons 223: wow man nice threads. |
In phrases
to get dressed up in one’s best clothes.
(con. 1945–6) Devil’s Jump (2008) 185: And I’m supposed to go and get threaded up for this turn today? |