seven n.
1. (UK Und.) a seven-year jail sentence.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier (Scot.) 25 Feb. 6/6: They had nabbed him and given him a seven stretch. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Jottings from Jail 24: Mike, whose record is ‘7 or the chuck for a clock,’ i.e., he hopes to be acquitted, but rather expects seven years for stealing a watch. | |
| He Died with His Eyes Open 69: With your form they’d weigh you off for seven if you squashed a fly. | |
| All the Colours 33: ‘He’s doing a seven in Saughton. Attempted murder’. | |
| Viva La Madness 71: Ted got nicked, got a seven, of which he did almost four. |
2. (also set of sevens) a week.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: I dug your spiel in The Courier last seven. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 20 May 11/2: I was in Smoketown just a few sevens ago. | |
 | N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 3 July 16: For the recent sevens, thine has really been jammin’ with a heavy slave session. | |
| ‘Manhattan Fable’ 🎵 During the next set of sevens, Eddie was so gone over the three yards that he had laying in the bin. | |
| In the Life 35: A nice week, Doc, have a good seven. [Ibid.] 36: You gone from this joint for a whole seven, a week, and me stuck here. |
3. (Aus., also seven-ouncer) a seven-ounce (200ml) glass of beer.
| [ | ![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dly Mercury (Mackay, Qld) 28 Aug. 3/4: The popular beer measure, the seven ounce glass, remains unaltered at nine pence as a result of a decision reached at a meeting of the Toowoomba branch of the Licensed Victuallers]. |
| Canberra Times (ACT) 28 Apr. 3/4: Mr. Newbigging said that a maximum of 7/- a glass for ‘sevens’ would be charged in public bars in the Sydney metropolitan area. | |
| Folklore of the Aus. Pub 128: Seven: a 7 oz. glass of beer. | |
| Glass Canoe (1982) 131: Then maybe he’d rouse himself and become a would-be publican, going round talking to groups of guys, buying drinks — drinking sevens, like a publican. | |
| Battler 160: He was pouring a beer for Gallagher as he spoke though, Bev noticed, even if it was just a seven instead of a middie. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 74: Big Oscar nearly let go his seven. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 74: [T]he barman started pouring a seven-ouncer . | |
| Bob in Oz 7 Aug. 🌐 In Tassie, just as in N.T. (probably) a glass is a seven. But a pot is a ten and a pint only 425 mL. |
4. (US drugs) a quarter-pound (7 oz) of cocaine.
| ‘Me OK’ 🎵 Snow can eyeball a seven, yeah, you best believe without the scale. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
1. (Aus.) a convict sentenced to a seven-year prison sentence.
| Tales of the Old Regime 219: Pedder was a ‘sevener’. |
2. (Irish) a fainting fit.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | (con. 1920s) Emerald Square 39: Hurry an’ get a small whiskey on me book [...] this woman has ‘done a sevener’ – the Liberties equivalent of a lady out the Ballsbridge way having the vapours. |
In compounds
(N.Z. prison) a fool.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 126/2: number seven n. a complete idiot. |
(US) excellent, first-rate.
| Brain Guy (2005) 84: Mac, we’re due to be in the dough. It’ll be seven-eleven with us. |
(US Und.) a general store; the robbery of a general store; thus seven-up hustler, a robber of a general store; seven up hustling, robbing general stores.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| et al. DAUL 189/1: Seven-up. (Rural areas) A general store. |
In phrases
see separate entry.
(US black) to lose, to be defeated; thus as excl. denoting defeat.
| Crazy Kill 131 ‘Sevened out,’ he said to himelf. ‘You lost that bet.’. | |
| Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 80: The two cops get out of the car, confiscate the broomstick bats and snap them in pieces. Seven out! |
see chuck a seven v.