Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. extremely intimate, usu. accompanied an illustrative gesture pressing two fingers together.

1917		R. Lardner ‘The Water Cure’ in Gullible’s Travels 204: ‘You had me fooled, then,’ I says. ‘I’d of swore that you and Bishop was just like that.’.
1942		N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 101: Frankie ’n the alderman ’r just like that.
1945		W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 77: ‘This Pacini guy—does he generally know what he’s talking about?’ ‘He’s like that with Benny,’ said Willy, holding up two fingers’.

2. (US, mainly Southern) a euph. for pregnant.

1976, 1983, 1993

in DARE.

3. homosexual.

1953		F. Brown Madball (2019) 68: ‘Some guys are that way, that’s all. In Sammy’s case I’d say it’s a break for him Jesse’s like that’.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 166: homosexual [...] like that.
1999		Eve. Standard 28 May 13: It was assumed Supermac had always been a bit ‘like that’ ever since.
2017		(con. 1950s) Spitalfields Life 30 May 🌐 Some of the brainier boys went to Shoreditch Central School in Hoxton. You were considered a little bit ‘like that’ if you went to Shoreditch Central, us we went to the original Blackboard Jungle, Pitfield St School.