Broadway n.
(US prison) the ground floor of a prison; it offers more space (sometimes used for overflow housing) than the upper tiers of landings outside the cells; cite 2015 refers to sollitary confinement cells .
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Broadway: The first floor of some tiers. A wide area where inmates come and go — and occasionally may be housed if the prison is particularly crowded. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 3 Sept. 🌐 Whe he had been placed in a cell in Mangauring’s notorious ‘Broadway’ isolation section remains uncertain. |
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(orig. US black) a New York City streetcar.
 | (ref. to 1913) Time of Trolley 123: New York Railways’ experimental ‘Broadway Battleship’ double-decker of 1913 was developed from the company's stepless car design. | |
| (ref. to 1915) City in Sl. (1995) 88: About 1915 the hobble-skirt streetcars used in New York were called Broadway battleships. |
(US Und.) a friendly greeting that prefaces a homicidal attack.
| Und. Speaks 14/1: Broadway hello, of apparently friendly meeting and after exchange of a few words the victim is stabbed. |
(US) a well-dressed idler, living off his wits and, when possible, gullible women.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. Dict. 98: Broadway Swell a New York term for a great dandy, Broadway being the principal promenade in the ‘Empire City.’. | |
| [ | | Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ) 29 Aug. 5/4: Majestic Theatre — To-night [...] Joe Egan ‘Broadway Boy. All new songs]. |
| On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 188: Hollywood Sams stood in front of swank restaurants arguing exactly the same way Broadway Sams argue at Jacob’s Beach New York. | |
| , | | DAS 63/2: Broadway boy A loud, garishly dressed, small-time gambler or ladies’ man. |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 225: I wasn’t Broadway Joe, but I possessed a modicum of hipness nonetheless. |