struggle n.
a party or dance.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Riverina Recorder (Moulamein, NSW) 19 June 2/7: [T]he Army had a ‘fowl struggle supper’ [...] the spread was called by that name in their advertisement. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wise-crack Dict. 10/2: Loan me your frame for the next struggle – Polite way of asking for the next dance. | |
| ‘College Sl.’ in AS III:2 131: A party is referred to as: ‘a struggle,’ ‘a brawl,’ ‘a rub,’ ‘a work out,’ or ‘a drag’. | |
| ‘Sl. among Nebraska Negroes’ in AS XIII:4 Dec. 316/2: A dance is a struggle or a bellyrub. | |
| ‘Hepster’s Dict.’ Mad mag. June 20: struggle – dance. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US) a run-down old car, esp. an early model Ford.
| Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 Apr. 24/3: Years before henry Ford commenced to make his struggle buggies. | |
 | Decatur Herald (IL) 24 Nov. 10/5: Some of the students had christened their chariots [...] ‘Struggle Buggy’. | |
| [instrumental title] Struggle Buggy. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Eve. Post (Wellington) 25 Jan. 8/8: Modern Americanisms [...] ‘struggle buggy’ or ‘puddle jumper’. | |
| Really the Blues 87: My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels. | |
| Real Cool Killers (1969) 89: ‘One of those cars his?’ ‘Them struggle buggies!’ Scorn pushed the fear from Ready’s voice. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Through Beatnik Eyeballs 54: They as old-fashioned as the struggle-buggy. | |
| (con. 1916) Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 121: If we’d bought Chandlers instead of these struggle buggies [...] we’d be there and back by now. | |
| Tampa Trib. (FL) 29 June 15/3: We know a man [...] refer to his automobile as a ‘struggle-buggy’. | |
| Guardian G2 6 Sept. 13: The brand does have a certain off-road pedigree, unlike a good many other tinfoil SUV struggle buggies. |
(US campus) a state of personal difficulty.
| Iowa City Press Citizen 16 Jan. 11/2: ‘We’re on the “struggle bus”,’ Iowa coach Angie Lee said. ‘e have to find a way to get off’. | |
| Hays Dly News (KS) 21 Sept. B1/2: ‘[W]e proved that we can overcome adversity,’ McFadden said. ‘We were on the struggle bus the whole game, but we came through when we needed to get the win’. | |
| UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 14: STRUGGLE BUS — in difficulty, overworked, under stress, etc.: ‘I’ve been riding the struggle bus all week because I’ve had three tests’ . | |
| Austin Amer. Statesman (TX) 21 Aug. F3/2: The company’s stock has bee on the struggle bus this year. |
(Aus.) nickname for various impoverished or hard-working urban centresthus fig. for a state of penury and/or unemployment; also attrib.
| Empire (Sydney) 9 May 2/5: [of Randwick] Mrs. Cutts hiving provided a luncheon such as never before was seen in ‘Struggletown’. | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 6 Feb. 5/5: Mr. Pearce: [...] ‘The Council of Randwick - (‘Struggle-town!’) - the Council of Randwick had under the old Act assessed the buildings of the Asylum’. | |
| Aus. Town & Country Jrnl (Sydney) Ladies’ Page 7 July 28/2: Randwick [...] The reason why — opening of a school of arts, so the once contemptuously-styled Struggletown is likely to become famous for other than turfy associations. | |
| Wodonga & Towong Sentinel (Vic.) 8 June 2/7: An Albury sasslety. journal never misses an opportunity of belittling Wodonga, for which, with a sublime didregard for originality, it can find no better name than ‘Struggletown’. | |
| Bowral Free Press (NSW) 28 Nov. 2/3: ‘STRUGGLETOWN’ is about to boom along again. ‘Struggletown’ is situated on the side of the Gib facing Bowral, the residents being chiefly, quarrymen and stonemasons. | |
| Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW) 25 Sept. 6/3: [of Castlereagh, NSW] The ‘Struggletown’ people are having a little joke amongst themselves, and have a finger-board posted up, reading, ‘To Envytown’. | |
| Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 13 Aug. 6/2: [of Paramatta, NSW] The nuisance Inspector reported on visiting ‘Struggletown’ and other places in the municipality and finding everything satisfactory. | |
| Sth Coast Times (NSW) 31 May 8/4: [of Wollongong] C. H. W. Smith gave evidence as to the state of the premises, which the solicitor for the defence stated were situated in a suburb known as ‘Struggletown,’ an awful place. | |
| Brisbane Courier (Qld) 18 Apr. 5/8: In every case [...] he found workers in Queensland were receiving less wages than were being paid in the Southern States [...] A Voice: We live in Struggletown. | |
| Cumberland Argus (Paramatta, NSW) 25 Aug. 8/2: [of Ryde, NSW] The point was that Ryde was getting the name of ‘Struggletown’ by its unsightly humpies and by the slackness of the authorities [...] and only poorer-class dwellings were now being erected. | |
| Dly News (Perth) : Recently a young woman procured an abortion in Sydney rather than marry the man who was urging her to do so. Her reason was that she was ‘not going to live in “Struggletown,”’ [...] all classes avoid ‘Struggletown’ — the recognised, suburb for people with large families and small incomes. | |
| Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 26 Aug. 4/3: [T]hat farming centre of what is most popularly known as ‘Struggle town.’ The name originated in tho early days of settlement [...] not to signify that it was a struggling township, hut rather to distinguish it as a little suburb of its own. | |
| Balonne Beacon (St George, Qld) 22 Aug. 5/1: The town [...] is Just now at that ‘struggle-town’ phase all mining camps seem to go through. There are a few well-constructed buildings and a lot of tents, humpies and shanties. | |
| Propeller (Hurstville, NSW) 5 Mar. 3/3: They didn’t want to see a repetition of the ‘struggle-town’ shacks which sprang up in various places during the financial depression period. | |
| Dandenong Jrnl (Vic.) 1 Dec. 14/4: Noble Park, which at that time was often referred to as ‘Struggle-town’ or ‘Sleepy Hollow’. | |
| Canberra Times (ACT) 8 Oct. 10/6: [of Queanbeyan, NSW] "We're not the struggletown we used to be you know. We've got nine motels, four hotels offering accommodation and two caravan parks. | |
| Canberra Times (ACT) 29 July B9/1: Hutchings grew up near Moruya, his family part of the struggle-town community of Congo. | |
| Age (Melbourne) 19 Aug. 29/4: I had my bottle [of wine] with roast squab and wild rice (and hung my ‘Struggle Town’ head in shame). | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 12 Sept. 59/3: It’s been a tough trek from the strets of Struggle Town, but it finally looks as if everything is working out . | |
| www.presscouncil.org.au 🌐 The town is seen as disintegrating through the loss of many jobs in the power industry; the houses are, by implication, dreary; there are said to be weirdos around the town; it is a ‘struggle town’, a ‘dumping ground’ for Melbourne’s single mothers. | |
| ‘Struggle Town’ 🎵 In Struggle Town there are kids and whores, / Selling their bodies outside your doors. | |
| Kill Shot [ebook] Nothing from his Struggletown childhood. | |
| Silver [ebook] Struggle town hasn’t gone altogether, but it’s in retreat, pushed inland, away from the water, away from The Boulevarde. |
(Aus.) a tramps’ encampment.
| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. |