Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a pickpocket; pickpocketing; thus haul a cly v., to pick a pocket.

1728		J. Dalton Narrative of Street-Robberies 8: Dalton and Branch [...] were sworn Companions at this Trade of snatching off Pockets, which, in their Language is call’d haul Cly.
1729		Life of Thomas Neaves 31: The way that he us’d to bite the Women, or play at Hawl Cloy, was this [...] whenever they met a Woman that they had Design upon, one of them would step to kiss her, and under the pretence of feeling her pretty Bubbies would thrust his Hand down her Bosom, whilst the Woman was struggling to take away his Hand, another of the Tribe would cut off her Pocket.

a clergyman.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

to have sexual intercourse; thus ash-hauler, a lover.

1910		Jelly Roll Morton Winin’ Boys Blues in Wilson Playboy’s Bk of Forbidden Words (1972) 20: I said, why’s that spider running up the wall? / Like you and me, baby, he wants his ashes hauled.
1929		Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels 🎵 When you see a spider goin’ up the wall, / He’s goin’ up there to get his ashes hauled.
c.1930		(ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 133: The husband who wasn’t getting it properly at home – he could come to get his ashes hauled, his wick dipped – both expressions popular in these middle class joints.
[1936		Bo Carter ‘Cigarette Blues’ 🎵 Won’t you just smoke my cigarette, draw it the whole night long, / Just draw my cigarette, until you makes my good ashes come].
1937		Washboard Sam [song title] Looking for My Ash Hauler.
1941		A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 20: Do you see that fly crawling up the wall, / She’s going up there to get her ashes hauled. / I got a woman lives right back of the jail, / She got a sign on her window – Pussy For Sale.
1951		(con. 1880s) S. Longstreet Pedlocks (1971) 89: We’ll get a box at the Comique, then go get our ashes hauled.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 188: Afterwards I got my ashes hauled.
1973		E. Bunker No Beast So Fierce 79: You haven’t got your ashes hauled yet. How long?
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 126: Even the company shitsack got his ashes hauled while we were there.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 176: Smut is [...] strictly for sad sacks who can’t get their ashes hauled.
2004		C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 114: He can’t even make it past lunch without getting his rocks hauled?
2008		‘Old Bill’ Wheeling and Dealing at asstr.org 🌐 We dock every man five hundred [...] and then everyone can get his ashes hauled once a month at least.
2012		G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 215: He was [...] content. A man who’d had his ashes hauled after a long drought.

see haul ass v.

to leave, to run off.

1938		D. Runyon ‘Too Much Pep’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 637: He may decide to haul ashes out of Harlem before anything happens to him.
1939		A. Bessie Men in Battle 85: ‘Haul your ashes,’ said an Italian-American.

see separate entry.

see haul ass v.

1. to leave, to escape, to run off.

1952		PADS 30: haul buggy: v. phr. To go away, to go home, to leave, especially in flight or haste. Not necessarily in a buggy.
1973		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 2: haul buggy – move on.
1978		D.M. Newell The Trouble of It Is 72: When he fell over onto the floor I knowed it was time for me to haul buggy out of there.
1998		R. Wilder You All Spoken Here 68: Haul buggy, light out for, cut out for: Leave hurriedly; be like Moody’s goose.
2003		‘Truckers Alert To Growing Security Risks’ 12 Mar. on Charleston.net 🌐 Anybody could back to one of them, hook it up and haul buggy. Nobody would think anything of it.

2. to increase one’s efforts, to work harder.

2002		Lee Roy Ledford ‘Doanie Mama’s Front Porch’ 23 Jan. at Bakersville.com 🌐 ‘Dana is at ten centimeters and is pushing. If Dad wants to be here to witness his namesake you had better haul buggy.’ We hauled buggy.
2006		H.B. Guthrie To Whom It May Concern 227: They [i.e. the Viet Cong] They would fight their ass’s off and haul buggy before being wiped out by the heavy weapons and machine gun fire of the gunships.

see haul ass v.

(Aus.) to obtain, to amass.

1934

C. Drew ‘Zarzoff’ in Bulletin 18 July 48/3: [W]restlin’ was startin’ to boom, and there was prospect of haulin’ down good money.

see haul ass v.

a euph. for haul ass v.

1896		Ade Artie (1963) 54: If she ever passes me up it’ll be for some guy that hauls a good deal more freight than that Indian does.
1951		R. Starnes Grant’s Tomb 238: ‘I should think Hack Harper would have hauled his freight then, and to hell with whatever transactions he had outstanding’.

see haul ass v.

(US) to arrest; thus haul-in n., a raid.

1912		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 78: He was standing on the corner — He looked like a stickup guy so I hauled him in.
1930		(con. 1920s) D. Mackenzie Hell’s Kitchen 104: I knew that Scotland Yard was after me and was going to haul me in.
1940		W.R. Burnett High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 335: If Earle gets hauled in by the D.A., Mr M’Gann will be out of luck!
1953		Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 8: Then how come they didn’t haul him in?
1959		A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 127: If Harry ever tries to get him hauled in, well, he’s got a friend at court.
1959		J. Gosling Ghost Squad 54: Benny the Barber [...] had come on the scene, unnoticed by us, just as we were hauling in his confederates.
1972		E. Grogan Ringolevio 287: Police Chief Cahill ordered his men to begin ‘daylight raids’ along Haight Street. These raids were quickly renamed ‘haul-ins’ by the kids.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 65: Who is the one guy that we don’t haul in? Magro.
1999		Fox & Nelson Sue The Bastards! 183: The minute you know who a witness is, the best thing to do is to just slap a subpoena on him, haul him in, and depose him.

see haul ass v.

(US) to have sexual intercourse; to give sexual pleasure; thus ash-haul job n., an act of intercourse.

1926		Sadie Green ‘Alleyman (Haul My Ashes)’ [song title].
1928		Clara Smith 🎵 When my daddy would love me, he was oh so good, / He could even haul my ashes.
1929		Ethel Waters ‘My Handy Man’ 🎵 He shakes my ashes, greases my griddle.
c.1930		Bob Clifford ‘Ash Can Blues’ 🎵 She said I could haul her ashes better than any other man, / she said I could sow my seed anytime in her ash can.
c.1930		(ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 19: A john who had hauled his ashes could welsh on paying.
1934		Lucille Bogan ‘Tired as I Can Be’ 🎵 I worked all winter / and I worked all fall, / I’ve gotta wait until spring / to get my ashes hauled.
1945		Folk Poems and Ballads (in Legman 1968) You may mention the ashes that need to be hauled, / Put the lid on her saucepan; even lay’s not too bald.
1951		S. Longstreet Pedlocks (1971) 89: We’ll get a box at the Comique, then go get our ashes hauled. [...] Never had an Indian girl myself.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Mama Black Widow 222: I still get beautiful laddies to haul my ashes.
1970		in P.R. Runkel Law Unto Themselves 263: Or is it more than an ash-haul job? Ah, that would be just like you, to fall in love too!
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 171: He’s hauling your hot ashes, maybe?
2003		J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude 331: Had Abraham secretly gotten his ashes hauled that particular week.

1. (W.I.) to leave, esp. as imper., haul yourself! get the hell out!

1980		A. Clarke Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack 95: Now, haul all your arses and help me load back these blasted canes on this lorry!
1991		P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 309: I just might [...] slap you with a warrant and haul your ass off to lockup for accessory to murder.
1994		Rebennack & Rummel Under A Hoodoo Moon 209: You haul your ass outta here.

2. (also haul it) to move.

1948		Z.N. Hurston Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 822: I aim to put you to work. Haul it on over here.
1952		L. Hughes Laughing to Keep from Crying 65: Let’s haul it to the club.
1959		W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 121: He’d better haul his tail out of here.
1972		(con. 1950s) Jacobs & Casey Grease I ii: You hauled your cookies all the way to the beach for some guy?

see haul ass v.

(US) to go or run fast.

1908		DN III 383: Tote the mail...To run away from something very rapidly; ‘hit the grit’...‘I made him fairly tote the mail out of my canepatch.’.
1935		Z.N. Hurston Mules and Men (1995) 131: He hauled de fast mail back into de woods.
1990		Cops [Fox-TV] We were haulin’ the mail all right [HDAS].

see separate entries.