duke v.1
1. (also dook (it), duke it, ring the dukes) to shake hands, to welcome.
![]() | Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 123/2: Amongst the foremost to ‘duke’ me upon entering was Squib Dixon. | |
![]() | Three Years Behind the Guns 8: A fellow walked up with extended hand and said, ‘Duke me, kid!’ From this gesture I knew it was a handshake and responded . | |
![]() | Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 63: DOOK-ME Aust. thieves and push shake hands with me. | |
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Sept. 4/7: I waits out by ther cab an’ tries ter dook ’er. | |
![]() | A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 48: Duke me, sis, duke me. | |
![]() | Taking the Count 308: ‘Duke me, kid!’ [...] he smiled frankly and extended his glove. | ‘Easy Picking’ in|
![]() | Truth (Melbourne) 31 Jan. 6/1: I hit my veranda shake-down in a few minutes, dooked the landlady, smilled at the cook [and] kissed the housemaid. | |
![]() | Honk! 28 Jan. 2/2: My hand is dead sore from ‘ringing dookes with ’em’. | |
![]() | Nat. Leader (Brisbane) 6 Sept. 8/1: Are you a Bananalander?’‘Too right,’ I says; and he come over and dooked me with ’is pudgy ’and, like I was a long-lost friend. | |
![]() | Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 11 Aug. 15/4: I fronts ’im. ‘Dook me, brother,’ ses I. ‘Didn’t I meet you at Dubbo?’. | |
![]() | Ellesmere Guardian 27 May 4/3: ‘We Dook the Duke‘ meant We shake hands with the Duke. | |
![]() | Station Days in Maoriland (1952) 64: Don’t you feel you’d like to dook him as he rattles past to win? | ‘The Favourite’ in|
![]() | Station Days in Maoriland (1952) 100: I always thought that Churchill was a grumpy sort o’ bloke, / But, when I sees his picture dookin’ diggers from New Zea- / I had a sort o’ feelin he was also dookin’ me. | ‘London’ in|
![]() | Honest Rainmaker (1991) 134: The Kid duked him with aplomb. | |
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![]() | Choirboys (1976) 79: But that asshole Lieutenant Finque ain’t trying to duke you into the Oriental community by using you as a part time community relations officer at Japanese luncheons. |
2. (also dook (it), duke it, ...on) to give out, to hand over; to bribe (see cit. 1953).
![]() | Grifter 8: ‘I just saw you dook Davies back that brummy quid. He didn’t know it was crook [...] but you jerried to it lively’. | |
![]() | Wise-crack Dict. 8: Duke me – Hand it to me. | |
![]() | ‘Spielers’ in Sidewalks of America (1954) 267: You [...] duke him, that is, you hand him the article and say thanks. | |
![]() | Joyful Condemned 232: I’m dooking all the higher-ups just to keep in sweet so that I don’t get some honest copper winning promotion on me. | |
![]() | Shiralee 138: I can dook you a caser if it’s any good to you. | |
![]() | Holy Smoke 93: Don’t go around dookin’ a few bob to every bot that puts the hard word on yer. | |
![]() | Last Toke 210: What you sniffin’ on, bro? Pecker duke it on y’all – free o’ charge. | |
![]() | I was Listening 41: You [...] just dooks yerself a good hand from the bottom of the pack [AND]. | |
![]() | Patriot Game (1985) 87: What you got to do is duke the guy five now and then. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s–60s) Guilty of Everything (1998) 268: The guy that ran the men’s room would then duke you whatever the doorman had written on a note. | |
![]() | At End of Day (2001) 109: Now and then I duke Peter a few bucks. |
3. (also duck) to fight with the fists.
[ | ![]() | Glasgow Gaz. 2 Nov. 1/5: The shrieks of various young Paisley ‘scuddies’ getting penny-worths of ‘dooking’ from their mithers]. |
![]() | (con. late 1920s) Little Ham Act I: I don’t duel, I duke. | |
![]() | If He Hollers 127: ‘I was going down to the A.C. on Thirty-fifth Street, learning how to duke’. | |
![]() | Shook-Up Generation (1961) 171: DUKE To fight (with fists). | |
![]() | Essential Lenny Bruce 48: I had no balls for fighting, and they could duke. | |
![]() | Third Ear n.p.: duking, ducking v. fighting or, at least, looking tough. | |
![]() | Ghetto Sketches 27: The gamblers snatch their money from the green felt table and give the combatants room to duke in. | |
![]() | Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Fox. Dime. Duke. Dap. |
4. to inform.
![]() | Cannibals 314: He had trapped himself with me by duking me into the fact that the articles in Face would be getting worse. |
5. (US black) to have sexual intercourse.
![]() | A2Z. | et al.
6. in carnival use, to persuade a potential victim to play a (crooked) game.
![]() | http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Duke — When a shill (game operator's employee posing as a member of the crowd) persuades someone to play, especially to play a rigged game. | ‘Carny Lingo’ in
In phrases
(Aus. und.) to overwhelm and confuse (a potential victim) with words.
![]() | Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 11 Apr. 13/7: While, they were ‘big dooking’ the client in one room He would be earwigging in the next. |
1. to introduce, to bring in to a plan or group; also as n.
![]() | in Variety 8 Jan. 123: My sticks duked him in and he went for about 3C’s on a set joint. | |
![]() | in DU (1949) 215/1: When the criminal asks to be introduced to another person he says he wanted to be duked in. | |
![]() | DAUL 63/2: Duke-in, n. An introduction; a come-on. [...] v. 1. To introduce. 2. To ensnare in a swindle; to induce. | et al.|
![]() | AS XLI:4 280: Duke me in on that action. | ‘More Carnie Talk’ in|
![]() | New Centurions 241: ‘It wouldn‘t hurt to try for a prostitution offer. If we get it, we could always try to use them to duke us into the upstairs drinking’. | |
![]() | (con. c.1967) Firefight 19: Amaro wished he had a joint [...] no one as yet offered to duke him into any. |
2. to fool, to trick.
![]() | see sense 1. | |
![]() | AS XXVIII:2 115: duke ’em in, v. phr. To work a mark into a game (usually flat), to swindle. | ‘Carnie Talk’|
![]() | Prison Sl. 14: Con Games which are run on new inmates to fool or exploit them for money or other items. (Archaic: hook, duke in, short con). [Ibid.] 15: Lay a Rap To persuade. (Archaic: duke in). |
3. to give a share.
![]() | Essential Lenny Bruce 188: You gonna duke me in on the insurance bread? |
see senses 1 and 2 above.
1. (US) to fight with fists.
![]() | Esquire 64 45: If he throws any sevens, he might have to duke it out with the troublemakers . | |
![]() | Time Warp Tales [comic bk] They duked it out with each other way past dawn. | |
![]() | Carlito’s Way 7: Me and this black kid ducked it out. | |
![]() | Blood Brothers 35: How many times you think Cheri came tonight watching you guys duke it out. | |
![]() | Spike Island (1981) 33: If they try to duke it out all somebody is gonna do is shoot ’em. | |
![]() | Dark Spectre (1996) 43: Wayne and Dawn have been duking it out again, which is why the call went out as a domestic. | |
![]() | Source Nov. 176: They’ve decided to squash their beef the old-fashioned way, by going into a boxing ring and duking it out. | |
![]() | A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 139: No one wanted to duke it out, and everyone was looking to ‘stripe’ the next man. |
2. to argue, to dispute; to challenge.
![]() | Life Its Ownself (1985) 53: A chicken-fried steak and cream gravy at Herb’s Café could duke it out with any phony Frenchman who ever wore a chef’s hat. | |
![]() | Straight Outta Compton 15: Daddy shouting for her to shut up unless she wanted them to duke it out again. | |
![]() | Guardian Rev. 3 Feb. 8: Creationists and scientists [...] ended up duking it out in the Supreme Court. |
see sense 2 above.
see separate entries.