unload v.
1. to take someone’s money or possessions; thus unloading n.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 36: Let him go and unload that monk, while we observe his behaviour. | |
| Pink ’Un and Pelican 199: The nice young stranger was unloaded of over one hunded and sixty pounds. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocab. Criminal Sl. 86: unloading [...] Current among pickpockets. Picking pockets in a crowd as passengers alight from street or railroad cars. | |
| Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 182: Godstrewth, Jimmy, he’s unloaded that sort of bloke you saw just now a hundred times. | |
| Franchise Affair (1954) 83: [A] disgraceful old man unloading on his income-tax. |
2. to ejaculate.
| ‘Female Tobacconist’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 43: One was a youth, turned twenty and two, / He view’d her bird’s eye, then called for a screw; / His pipe being charged, and ramm’d in with his paw, / He was obliged to unload, before it would draw. | |
 | ‘Betty Co-Ed’ [comic strip] I’m going to unload about a barrell [sic] of baby fluid. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Love me Sailor 12: ‘Looks as if he’s hoping to unload tonight,’ I said. ‘You’ve got a dirty mind,’ said Ern. [...] ‘Rutting’s not dirty, it’s only natural,’ I said. | |
| Alfie Darling 196: I mean you even begin to wonder is this bird worth this marvellous thing you’re going to unload. | |
| Gay (S)language. | |
| Powder 60: Evie had not been there. Moira was gone too. Guy, burning hard, found himself paining to unload. | |
| ‘Polari’ 🎵 on Polari [album] Now me & the gang gonna be a boat load of men / lined up to unload in your throat. / How deep does it go? How hot does it get? / Mine went in dry but shit, it came out wet & drippin. | |
| ‘Knockemstiff’ in Knockemstiff 40: With a shudder, he unloaded his jizz all over Lucy’s plastic face. |
3. to drop, to dispose of, to get rid of.
| Ten Years In Wall Street 32: In that case, the ring find themselves saddled with a large amount of stock, for which there is little demand. And now the problem is to unload. | |
| Wash. Eve. Critic n.p.: 24 Nov. The policy of Gibson & Co. is to unload the odium of their wretched force [i.e. farce] upon the President. | |
| Millionaires of a Day 19: I would be too smart to run another ranche in this country. I would unload it on some tenderfoot. | |
| Shorty McCabe 41: I don’t wonder old Blue Beak had a lot of conversation to unload. [Ibid.] 218: I thought it would be a bright scheme to hang onto the place for a year or so, before I tries to unload. | |
| Varmint 74: What else did they unload on you? | |
| Sex (1997) I i: Wait until the old gink finds out what she is. Watch him unload her. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 193: Unload.-[...] To get rid of, as something of doubtful or little value. | |
| You’re in the Racket, Too 119: They’re good enough even if the rocks do take a bit of unloading. | |
| Capricornia (1939) 72: Take it away. You can’t unload your brats on me. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 39: A millionaire Wall Street broker [...] who decided to unload it [i.e. a property] in a hurry. | |
| Come in Spinner (1960) 19: Now just what would she unload on Mrs Dalgety this time? | |
| Sweet Thursday (1955) 122: I could unload nearly fifty. | |
| Chantic Bird 155: She was edging me to the door. ‘You’re trying to unload me,’ I said. | |
| Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 44: Old Spinoza has [...] about a quarter of a million grubby pound notes [...] Well, we knew he would be having to unload soon. | |
| Alice in La-La Land (1999) 31: Jenny Denver, Twelvetree’s firstborn by the wife he’d unloaded when Jenny had been ten. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 124: Unloading a single O.Z. sometimes took up to an hour. | |
| Grits 64: Av got t’run round-a fuckin pubs and pleyces unloadin it all like. | |
| ‘Blessed’ in Knockemstiff 172: I was on the phone one day, trying to unload a hot four-wheeler. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 53: Fake bearer bonds — unload them in Mexico. |
4. to offer one’s opinion; to give orders.
| Down the Line 16: Every Breezy Boy I met had a different hunch and they called me into the wharf and unloaded. | |
| Shorty McCabe 16: As Leonidas and me does the anti-famine act Homer unloads his hard-luck wheeze. | |
| ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 Satchelfoot unloaded in a hurry. ‘Look, I pick up the guy and I grab his bag [etc.]’. | |
| ‘Don’t Meddle with Murder’ in Thrilling Detective May 🌐 Mullin unloaded the usual directions. | |
| Age (Melbourne) 3 May 4/2: ‘They were trying to get me to [...] unload on the Government’. | |
| Whiplash River [ebook] Shake waited for Gina to unload on him. She let him wait. |
5. (US) to get off or out of a vehicle.
| Life In Sing Sing 262: Oh, yes, I’ve heard guns shoot, but how were they loaded? You missed the number. They hadn’t the shot. Well, we had better unload. | |
| ‘A Tale of two Fists’ VIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 30 Apr. 25/4: One day [...] Jack [Dempsey] was forced to ‘unload’ by a hard-hearted ‘shack’ [...] which is to say a brakeman made him get off the train. | |
| Journal of Murder in Gaddis & Long (2002) 48: A shack [...] telling us to dig up or unload. | |
| Living Rough 260: ‘Hey,’ one barks, ‘get the hell off this freight. Unload now.’. | |
| In For Life 221: I [...] drove out onto the road, where I told him to unload. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | (con. 1920s) Legs 78: Which of you assholes is going to be the first to unload? | |
| Crumple Zone 15: A hundred and fifty bags of shopping, six killer dogs and thirty tooled up brats unload on floors six, seven, fifteen and twenty. |
6. to throw a punch, to beat up; to smash into.
| Marvel III:58 17: ‘You’re no trifle,’ retorted the tramp [...] ‘So you’ll find unless you unload quick.’ ‘That’s a threat.’ ‘It is.’ ‘Then sling it at somone who’s afraid of you.’. | |
| Chosen Few (1966) 156: I got a mind to unload and jus’ kick th’ hell outta all thirteen asses in this squad, right now!!! | |
| About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 113: ‘Unload’ and ‘ sell out’ are players’ term[s] for what you do when you put all of yourself into another body. | |
| It (1987) 116: He unloaded on her pretty good. |
7. (US) to fire one’s gun.
| Enemy to Society 291: The bunch of us oughta be able to swear Trompey into Matteawan if we stand ‘pat’; but if we start tryin’ to unload hardware and seein’ coppers through th’ smoke, we’re gone. | |
| God’s Man 128: The Swede unloads a cannon, and gits Joe in the currency kick. | |
| (con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 84: Marines do like to unload on the motherfuckers when they have a chance. | |
| Pulp Fiction [film script] 115: He unloads on this guy and he doesn’t hit anything. | |
| ‘Contraband’ 🎵 in Source Aug. 208: Some crazy Pac fan that flipped and unloaded a clip. | |
| ‘Homecoming’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 6 [TV script] I unloaded on the young ’un too soon, man. | |
| Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘We roll on the fucker, and I unload into him’. |
8. (US) to bet to the limit.
| ‘Sports Topics’ in Brooklyn Dly Times 31 May ?/3: Mr Downey tells me that Scranton is willing to unload on Peter against Dundee and willing to wager on weight, winner or any other angle. |
9. to defecate.
| in Limerick (1953) 142: When, frightened by chance, / I unload in my pants. |
10. (Aus.) to vomit.
| White with Wire Wheels (1973) 156: Take it away, or I’ll unload in your lap. |
11. (US drugs) to empty a hypodermic syringe when one injects a narcotic.
| Back to the Dirt 42: A loaded shot was in the mug. Wylie [...] grabbed the needle, stabbed it between the toes, unloaded the rig. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to drink from a quart pot.
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. |