Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to become bankrupt.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Whereas. To follow a hwreas, to become a Bankrupt, the notice given in the Gazette that a commission of bankruptcy is issued out against any trader, always beginning with the word whereas.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd edn) n.p.: To follow a whereas; to become a bankrupt, to figure among princes and potentates: the notice given in the Gazette that a commission of bankruptcy is issued out against any trader, always beginning with the word whereas. He will soon march in the rear of a whereas.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

see fuck-me shoes under fuck-me adj.

curls that hang over a woman’s shoulder.

1862		Times 21 Jan. 10/1: Vagrant ringlets straying over the shoulder, better known by the name of ‘follow me, lads’.
1863		Belfast Morn. News 3 Apr. 3/5: The other day some Paterfamilias, writing to the Times, stigmatised the long curls which some young ladies wear over-the-shoudlers [...] by the name of ‘Follow-me-lads!’.
1872		Spectator n.p.: Follow-me-lads are not in themselves very pretty, though, like any other fashion, they become the Princess, and they are exceedingly costly [F&H].
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 30: Follow-me-Lads, curls hanging over a lady’s shoulder.

(US black) to lead a law-abiding life, whatever temptations may exist to the contrary.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].

1. to ejaculate twice without withdrawal.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 416/2: C.20.

2. to soil one’s underwear by mistake.

1927		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana I 143: ‘At the foorth hole I left a poop.’ ‘That can happen to all of us,’ his friend again said. ‘I ken, I ken, but I followed through,’ said Sandy.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 24: Ah fart, and instantly follow through, feeling the wet sludge in ma pants.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 17: Colm lifts one arse cheek an lets out a loud fart before he leaps up an sprints bow-legged to thuh bog yelling: — shite! Av follered fuckin through!
2016		N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] Mercifully it [i.e. breaking wind] finally stopped, but only due to the high chance of a follow-through.