Green’s Dictionary of Slang

vulgar, tasteless decor.

1986–7

Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] Early Halloween (décor, also Early Homosexual, Early Eclectic, Early Battersea, Yiddish Renaissance, No Man Fuckus, from Neiman Marcus).

(US black) dawn, the early morning.

1941		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 19 July 13: I trilled on the early beam up the cruncher to the Sugar Lump.
1944		D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 64: On the early beam, I trumped the hump.

see under black n.

(US black) the early morning.

1938		Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 23 July 11/1: Several muscians digging him at the Famous Door the other early bright.
1944		D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 114: A Cat may [...] wake up in the early bright with a stack of dead presidents and a pad on the sweet lump.
1953		L. Durst Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 5: Everyone else get in the groove so solid you can’t hardy move its deep in the early bright and we got to fade like a morning glory.
1960		‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 25: He [...] would stick his wig out of the castle window in the early bright and say [etc.].
1968		‘Hy Lit’ Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 13: early bright – Early morning.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 46: He and Mama fought like pit bulldogs one early bright.

embryonic, early model.

1960

‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 16: Mark has got to put Cleo down, this was a tight move for him ’cause this Cleo was an early day Elizabeth Taylor.

vulgar, tasteless decor.

1986–7

Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] Early Halloween (décor, also Early Homosexual, Early Eclectic, Early Battersea, Yiddish Renaissance, No Man Fuckus, from Neiman Marcus).

vulgar, tasteless decor.

1986–7

Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] Early Halloween (décor, also Early Homosexual, Early Eclectic, Early Battersea, Yiddish Renaissance, No Man Fuckus, from Neiman Marcus).

vulgar, tasteless decor.

1980

Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 242: Early Homosexual (bare floors, white walls or exposed brick, big plants in lieu of furniture).

see Sunday morn n.

(Aus. prison) suicide.

1993		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 32: The nickname for suicide in jail is early parole and for what it is worth I believe that Downie simply took early parole.
2004		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 3 38: You Sean had the bad manners to decide to take early parole while in the cell next to mine.

a drink made of hot beer and gin.

1842		Manchester Courier 5 Mar. 3/2: In those early days (so remote, that ‘Early Purl Houses’ were unknown).
1850		Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 May 4/1: So still we drained the early pearl and swigged the heavy wet.
1859		Western Dly Press 10 Oct. n.p.: He did not now appear to have recovered from the effects of drinking ‘early purl,’ which he said was composed of hot beer, with ‘a dash of gin’.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 122/1: Early purl (Street, 19 cent.). A drink made of hot beer and gin, so named because taken early on a cold morning. A song ran ‘I’m damned if I think / There’s another such drink / As good early purl.’.
1940		(ref. to early 1900s) T. Burke Streets of London 92: Tea and coffee were too expensive for them; and it was not everybody who liked the stronger breakfast of Early Purl or Dog’s Nose.