like that adj.
1. extremely intimate.
Gullible’s Travels 204: ‘You had me fooled, then,’ I says. ‘I’d of swore that you and Bishop was just like that.’. | ‘The Water Cure’ in||
Never Come Morning (1988) 101: Frankie ’n the alderman ’r just like that. |
2. (US, mainly Southern) a euph. for pregnant.
in DARE. |
3. homosexual.
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’. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 166: homosexual [...] like that. | ||
Eve. Standard 28 May 13: It was assumed Supermac had always been a bit ‘like that’ ever since. | ||
(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. |