cement n.
1. (US drugs) any form of illegally merchandised narcotics.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 119/2: cement. A general term covering any kind of illicit narcotics. This term seems to be restricted to dope as it passes into commerce. |
2. (Aus.) any form of diarrhoea cure, such as kaolin (and morphine), which depends for its efficacy on ‘hardening’ the contents of the stomach.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | DSUE (8th edn) 194/1: later C.20. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US) a cemetery.
| Going After Cacciato (1980) 142: Cement city — gravestones. |
(US teen) a gullible, conventional person.
| ‘Crepe for Suzette’ Thrilling Detective Oct. 🌐 What’s the matter with that cement-head called Mullin? | |
| ‘Showdown with Rance McGrew’ in New Stories from the Twilight Zone 57: ‘Cement head!’ Rance shrieked back at him. | |
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 8: cement head – Not too educated; stupid; sleeping in the head, and they don’t understand when you try to get them straight. | |
 | Seventh Game 16: This team is full of cement heads, but you’re not a cement head, are you Longboat. | |
| (con. 1978) Catalog of Cool 🌐 puppethead (noun): Square person, esp. one who lets others pull his or her taste strings. [...] Synonyms [...] cementhead, chowder-head. | |
| Ballpark 74: Asked if he had indeed called his manager ‘cement head,’ Williams said he wasn’t sure. | |
| You re Being Lied To n.p.: Capital provided the raw material for a society where any cement-head can write a screed on a free Yahoo Website. |
(US Und.) a method of disposing of a corpse by placing it inside a barrel filled with wet cement and tossing the resultant lump into a river.
| Two & Three 20 Jan. [synd. col.] Kearns pulled the well-known bloomer and earns the barbed-wire sox and the cement spats. | |
| [ | | Halo For Satan (1949) 213: It could earn me a barrel of cement for my legs and the Drainage Canal for a tomb]. |
| Hoods (1953) 345: It would be bye-bye for me, in a cement kimona. | |
| ‘A Present for Big Saint Nick’ in Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 163: ‘Ev-ry-bo-dy loves Big Nick,’ said Wanda. ‘Or they wind up in Lake Michigan with cement overshoes,’ said Pullman. | |
| Onionhead (1958) 86: ‘My mob’ll make him some cement underwear, pal’. | |
| Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 94: You lay a finger on me and you’re getting fitted for a cement suit. | |
| Stand (1990) 59: The Deck doesn’t like the idea of cement cowboy boots. | |
| Life Its Ownself (1985) 253: A man who wanted to have Swami Muktamananda measured for a cement robe. | |
| Llama Parlour 213: I remembered his upcoming appointment for a Mafia shoe-fitting. ‘I wonder what size cement shoe I take?’ he’d mused in the car. |
1. a rickety, broken-down vehicle.
| in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 97: If he gets four bits for that old cement mixer he’s a wonder. | |
| ‘Hot Rod Lexicon’ in Hepster’s Dict. 1: Cement mixer – Car with great many loud noises. | |
| Da Bomb 🌐 6: Cement mixer. Car that makes loud noises. |
2. a dance [it is a mixer that cements relationships].
| Real Jazz Old and New 150: A dance is a cement-mixer [W&F]. | |
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3. a promiscuous woman.
| Teen-Age Mafia 83: For all he knew she could be a two-bit grind, a regular cement mixer. |
4. a striptease artist (or prostitute who offers a strip as part of her services).
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| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 63: Cement Mixer. The bump-and-grind motions during a burlesque or nightclub striptease. |