Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a city person, as seen from a farmer’s point of view.

1936		T.J. Farr ‘Folk Speech of Middle Tennessee’ in AS XI:3 275: City bug. A person who lives in the city.
1940–1		Cassidy WI Atlas n.p.: City bug —one from the city, as seen by farmers [DARE].
1967–9		in DARE.

a constable.

1703

N. Ward in DSUE (1984).

1. Newgate prison.

1789		J.W. von Archenholz Annalen der Brittischen Geschichte des Jahrs 1788 I 388: Newgate war darin mit dem diebischen kunst: namen City College bezeichnet.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1862		E. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 313/2: city college, C’est la prison de Newgate.

2. (US) the Tombs Prison, New York City.

1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl. 27: city college. A city jail, lockup.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

3. any prison.

1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 17: City College, the jail.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 22/1: City college, city jail.

see New York minute under New York n.

the gallows.

1798

Sporting Mag. Aug. XII 280/1: Come, as some folks call it, to the gallows; / [...] / To weigh their weight upon the city scales.

bitter beer.

1909

J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 78/1: City sherry (Peoples’, E. London, 1880). Four ale, which in colour may be said to resemble the worst description of sherry or the highest quality of rectified varnish. The East London people have a modified mistrust of those living amongst them, who get their living in the city, especially of the great body of exclusive clerks, whose general poverty they satirise in many ways, of which this is one.

the (Newgate) gallows.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

a fashionable lady.

1609

Jonson Silent Woman Prologue: Some for Lords, Knights, Squires, Some for your waiting-wench, and Citie-wires.

(Aus. drugs) the unpleasant sensation in one’s mouth following excessive smoking of cannabis.

2001

Da Smokehouse Marijuana Gloss. 🌐 city clag blues [au]- when your mouth feels like the inside of a clag glue bottle after smoking.

see Windy City n. (1)