Green’s Dictionary of Slang

odds n.1

[SE odds, i.e. the idea of gambling on a woman being prepared to prostitute herself]

(US Und.) a woman, esp. one is prepared to prostitute herself for her partner.

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[US]D. Maurer Big Con 302: The odds. 1. See forty-some odd. 2. A woman, especially one who does or will support her man through prostitution.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

over the odds (also above the odds) [note colloq. use in specifically with ref. to pricing, e.g. pay over the odds]

1. extreme, beyond the normal limits of acceptable behaviour.

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[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 22 Oct. 4/8: The bloke wot roat ware the long bears blum 2 weeks ago is a bit over the ods.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Dec. 20/3: I shouldn’t so much mind if there was any truth in it, but to be bounced by a pair o’ plucked pigeons like them two chaps is a bit over the odds.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 30 July 22/4: A good fellow at Renmark (S.A.), recognising that the way beer worries him when it gets him down is a bit above the odds, lately went before a magistrate [...] and obtained an order forbidding anybody to hand him liquid ruin.
[Aus]W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 37: over the odds — Unconscionable.
[UK]‘Sapper’ Third Round 541: I say, old man — murder! [...] Don’t you think that’s a bit over the odds?
[Aus](con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 394: She’s over the odds – a bit of a b--.
[Aus]K. Tennant Battlers 74: Parsons, he supposed, should be allowed a certain licence, but saying grace and embarrassing people was a bit over the odds.
[Aus]Cusack & James Come in Spinner (1960) 20: It’s over the odds when she lets us in for this kind of thing right on closing time.
[NZ]I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 61: Sometimes they’re [i.e. a conservative magistrate] just a bit over the odds.
[Aus]R. Beckett Dinkum Aussie Dict. 39: Over the odds: A ‘bit rough’. Normally said of one who is deemed to be ‘coming on a bit strong’. A statement that is a palpable lie.
[US]G. Hammond Hook or Crook 74: Then Mr Hollister, who’d completely lost his rag, tried to have a go at Imad while I was holding him, which was a bit over the odds.
[US]C. Masters Jonestown 336: He is chided for the blueness of his humour [...] ‘Actually on reflection, I think the jokes were a bit over the odds.’.

2. drunk.

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[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 31 Dec. 4/8: ’Twas decided to spend next year / Without getting over the odds, or tight / On Wanneroo rum or beer.
[Aus]Truth (Melbourne) 7 Feb. 11/7: The lady boarder was nearly always drunk and her behaviour was a trifle over the odds.
[NZ]N. Hilliard Maori Girl 261: I like to take a drink myself. If I’ve gone over the odds, I’ve got friends to look after me.