done over adj.
1. of a woman, having been used for sexual purposes.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 62: DONE OVER: vulgar seduced. ‘She’s been done over.’. | |
![]() | DSUE (1984) 327/2: C.18–20 ob. |
2. drunk.
![]() | Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 292: Tom was rather mellow [...] Jerry was completely done over. | |
![]() | Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. | |
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler may further be [...] done over. |
3. worsted, put at a disadvantage, forced to lose out in a disagreement or struggle.
![]() | Life and Travels 139: I supplied her with genteel apparel, and likewise paid a doctor for her during a severe fit of sicknes, after recovering from which she married and left me as usual like the done-over tailor. | |
![]() | Drogheda Conservative Jrnl 9 Feb. 4/2: Sis I, to the Squire in a pig’s whisper — ‘but I’m fairly done over, you must excuse me Squire, jewel, for goin’ off’. | |
![]() | DSUE (1984) 327/2: C.19-20. | |
![]() | Aus. Women’s Wkly 1 Dec. 2/3: ‘Done over’ meant anything from being killed in the blue to being bashed on a working party. |
4. see do over v. (4)