canvas n.
1. the human skin.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 229: She is a prime girl; she is A. Number one, copper-bottomed [...] she is full-rigged, and carries a lot of canvas. |
2. (US tramp) clothing.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Sun (NY) 21 May 28/1: ‘If I make fifty or sixty bills dis winter I’ll buy myself some [...] new canvas (clothes)’. |
3. (US Und.) a strait-jacket.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
In compounds
(Aus.) a second-rate boxer who spends most of his time lying on the canvas .
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Intractable [ebook] ‘You can’t take a punch. You’re a fucking canvas back’. |