equipped adj.
1. rich.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Equipt c. rich. | ||
Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) II [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Vocabulum. |
2. well-turned out, well-dressed [20C use mainly US black].
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Equipt [...] having new Clothes. Well equipt, c. plump in the Pocket, or very full of Money; also very well drest. The Cull equipt me with a brace of Meggs, c. the Gentleman furnish’d me with a couple of Guineas. | ||
Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) II [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Vocabulum. | ||
Black Jargon in White America 63: equipped adj. 1. stylish; fashionable. |
3. (US black) emotionally and socially poised.
Black Jargon in White America 63: equipped adj. [...] 3. able; capable. |
4. carrying a weapon of one sort or another.
Vinnie Got Blown Away 156: Course I went guilty carrying some screwdriver yeah I’m equipped. | ||
Hooky Gear 28: Bein home equipped is almost as good as going equipped. |