pad n.2
1. a bed.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Hell Upon Earth 6: Pad, a Bed. | |
| Regulator 19: The Padd, alias Bed. | |
| Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 112: Is the Bed good or bad? Is the Pad Rum or Quer? | |
| Life and Character of Moll King 11: Does Jack doss in your Pad now? | |
| ‘A Cant Song’ Muses Delight 177: Dear Molly, he cried, I will doss in your pad. | |
| (con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in (1999) xxix: A Pad A Bed. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Pad, a Bed. | |
| , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Harry Lorrequer 56: Why you can have ‘Pether,’ my own pad, and a better you never laid leg over. | |
| Swell’s Night Guide 65: It is common for the donna of the cassey to patter thus to the tramp: – ‘Vot pad vould you like, sir?’ ‘Oh, a two win dodge.’ [Ibid.] 77: Ven the swaddy piped her mug in the morning, he was so stunned with the uglies, that he crapped the pad. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Secret Band of Brothers 114: The word pad means Bed. | |
| Vocab. Criminal Sl. 64: pad [...] a bed; a place to sleep. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 140: Pad. – A bed. | |
| Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: dig my pad—Go home to my bed. | |
| ‘Make with the Shape’ in Coll. Stories 113: [T]he only logical thing for her to have done after all that workout would have been to fall into the pad and cop some revivifying nods. | |
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 6: With that fly cat I’ll chill my chat and fall on my righteous pad and cop a nod like mad. | |
| Return of the Hood 10: I had no alibi to begin with unless a warm solo pad could be called one. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 16: We dirtied plates and copped pads. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | (con. 1920s) Legs 63: Bryn spotted me yawning. ‘You’d better hit the pad, Legs.’. |
2. a place, house or apartment, e.g. a prostitute’s room [note late 19C+ army j. married pads, meaning both wives and married quarters + Indian Army use padgeree, married quarters ].
| [ | | Regiment 1 Aug. 282/3: I was not entitled to quarters. But [...] I was permitted to occupy a vacant room in the‘“married pads.’ But ‘only till such time as I could secure quarters outside barracks’. |
| Fortune July 170: There are reefer pads. | |
| Duke 117: We got the mattresses into our pad. | |
| Monkey On My Back (1954) 107: A pad was a cellar dive, usually run by one of the older boys in the neighborhood. He’d have maybe two or three girls in and send the word around [...] Any cat who wanted to drop in could do so if he anted up a half buck. | |
| Viper 109: "The man from Oxford! as Anthony became known around the clubs and pads. | |
| Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/1: [A]lthough she pounded some ground at most of the blasts with Bugsy, the kook always blew the pad with a grub. | |
| Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 175: I might [...] go round my friend’s pad for an all-night session. | |
| Street Players 9: Just ’cause you got this pad up here, you must think that makes you one hell of a pimp. | |
| Bonfire of Vanities 611: Millionairess Maria entertained McCoy in $331-a-month tryst pad. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 103: Jack found the pad, knocked, no answer. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 58: Uncle Angus was ringing up all the way from Melbourne where he had his pad which was a very large and flash joint somewhere toffy like South Yarra. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Filth 148: They’re probably in some shitehoose of a pad in Leith with a carry-oot of Tennants Super. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 16 Jan. 3: The modern batchelor pad is not a modest proposition. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Sun. Times (S.Afr.) 27 Jan. 24: A pal’s pad in north London. | |
| Independent 24 Jan. 37/2: When I look at our pad, I often think of The Avengers. | |
| Word Is Bone [ebook] She don’t come round the pad when I drink. | |
| Widespread Panic 19: [heading] liberace’s swank swish pad. |
3. (also pads) a padded cell, a strip cell.
| Marsh 375: The doctor’s shout, ‘Shove him in the Pad. That’ll teach him!’ was whipping his brain to a frenzy. | |
| Letters from the Big House 35: In a pad last night. A pad. Couldn’t find me there, could you? No ventilators to the pad. | |
| The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘I don’t give a bollix if they put me in the pad’. | |
| Indep. Rev. 11 July 6: In a mental hospital as a patient, where she had been in the ‘pads’ — a padded cell. |
4. (US black/drugs) an apartment used for smoking and selling of marijuana.
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 27 Aug. A6: Weed smokers are due for the next big purge with the G-Men rounding up certain [...] ‘pad’ operators as distributing points for the reefer traffic. |
5. (US Black) a speakeasy.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 14 June 7/3: He showed her how to get ‘lushed’ (intoxicated) . . . How to ‘drag a roach’ (smoke a marihuana cigarette) and how to ‘fall to a pad’ (Drop into a speakeasy). |
6. (US Und.) a cell.
| et al. DAUL 151/2: Pad. (Chiefly in South; borrowed from Negro jargon) [...] 2. (P) A cell. | |
| Farm (1968) 48: I put the radio and other junk under my arm and started for my pad. | |
| Lowspeak 110: Padmate – a cell mate. | |
| Prison Sl. 7: House An inmate’s prison cell [...] An inmate’s house is his living area where his bed and personal property are kept. (Archaic: den, pad). | |
| Guardian 29 Apr. 14: After the attack, Stewart [...] drew a swastika on the cell wall and wrote ‘Just killed me padmate’. |
7. see padding ken under pad v.1
In compounds
(US black) one’s house, one’s home.
| DSUE (8th edn) 848: [...] since ca. 1958. |
(US) enough money to obtain accommodation for one night or admission into an opium den.
| Life In Sing Sing 256: Pad Money. Money for lodgings. | |
| ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 457: Pad money, Money for a night’s lodgings or for admission into an opium den. | |
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| et al. DAUL 151/2: Pad-dough. (Central and Southern U. S.) Money for rent or lodgings. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
(drugs) a room in which drug users can gather and use their drugs.
| cited in Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink. |
In phrases
(US) to go to bed, to sleep.
| Monkey On My Back (1954) 91: Occasionally youngsters who [...] had trouble at home would spend the night here ‘padding down’ in the corridors. | |
| ‘Sex Gang’ in Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] I need a place to pad out for about a week. | |
| Teen-Age Mafia 129: He had been padding down in the basement of a condemned tenement. |
(US black/Southern) an ice-cream parlour.
| Jive and Sl. |
(US black/Southern) a grocery store.
| Jive and Sl. |
(US black/Southern) a cinema.
| Jive and Sl. |
(US black) a prison.
 | N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 21 Mar. 16: ‘They took me to th’ pad of many windows’. |
(US black) a funeral parlour.
| Jive and Sl. |
(US black) a hospital.
| Jive and Sl. |
(US black/Southern) a tailor’s shop.
| Jive and Sl. n.p.: Pad of togs-in-rough ... Tailor’s shop. |
(US black/Southern) a restaurant.
| Jive and Sl. n.p.: Pad of wet scarf ... Cafe. |
see pad down
(US black) a bachelor’s apartment.
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 16: He’d jived me into laying a broom to that repent pad. |
1. a lobby, a lounge.
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
2. a stool; a chair.
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |