hang (it) up v.
to offer credit, to defer payment, to record as a debt.
![]() | New Canting Dict. n.p.: Hang it up [...] Speaking of the Reckoning at a Bowsing-ken, when the Rogues are obliged, for want of Money, to run on Tick. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Swell’s Night Guide 121/2: Hang it Up, to leave a reckoning unpaid at a public house. | |
![]() | Vocabulum. | |
![]() | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 9 Oct. 6/4: ‘Your reverence, I’m sorry for to be obliged to hang this little bill up’. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 35: Hang it Up, remember it. |