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Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: All out — with nothing left in him [i.e. a racehorse].at all out, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: All out — with nothing left in him [i.e. a racehorse]. Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: In the cart — On the road to execution — in a fair way to become a ‘corpse’.at in the cart under cart, n.1
Sporting Gaz. (London) 8 Apr. 4/3: Cock — A horse who is not trying to win [...] a ‘stiff ’un’ .at cock, n.6
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: Corpse, or ‘A stiff ’un’—A horse introduced into the betting for market purposes, with no probability of starting.at corpse, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 8 Apr. 4/3: To go for the gloves — To lay a large sum against a horse without the slightest intention of paying if he wins.at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: A horse is said ‘to come hot’ in the betting when he is suddenly backed for a large amount.at come hot (v.) under hot, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 8 Apr. 4/3: Real jam — A good thing.at real jam (n.) under jam, n.2
Sporting Gaz. (London) 22 July 16/3: ‘[W]e shall be spared the customary slang of burlesques, and be quite independent of nigger breakdowns’.at nigger, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: Pot — The sum of money for which a favourite is backed, and sometimes the favourite himself.at pot, n.1
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 July 12/3: [from Cornhill Mag.] Shoddy pours forth slang with a recklessness unparalleled. [...] Shoddy sinners doze in the best pews on Sunday; Shoddy saints stay at home, paralysed by their sudden good fortune. Shoddy merchants stand well ‘on the street;’ and Shoddy merchants dodge the sheriff round the corner.at shoddy, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: Sidebinder — a heavy cut with the whip to get the horse to make another effort.at sidebinder (n.) under side, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 1 Apr. 5/1: Corpse, or "A stiff ’un"—A horse introduced into the betting for market purposes, with no probability of starting.at stiff ’un, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 8 Apr. 4/3: Straight tip — Direct information about a horse from the owner or someone in a position to know all about him.at straight tip (n.) under tip, n.5
Sporting Gaz. (London) 8 Apr. 4/3: To tumble to — To form a correct appreciation of any movement in the market connected with a race horse.at tumble, v.2
Sporting Gaz. (London) 27 Oct. 6/2: Instead of ‘all correct,’ of which O.K. is the slang equivalent, it turned out a decided case of ‘hookey’ so far as the fielders were concerned.at hooky, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 27 Oct. 6/2: Instead of ‘all correct,’ of which O.K. is the slang equivalent, it turned out a decided case of ‘hookey’ so far as the fielders were concerned.at OK, adj.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 25 May 15/1: The principle ‘hang out’ (if I may use a slang expression) of anglers on the Earn is Crieff [which] is every summer filled with crowds of visitors [...] anxious to ply their line on the neighbouring stream.at hang-out, n.1
Sporting Gaz. (London) 19 Jan. 14/2: The ‘member for Finsbury,’ as this author, with the detestable slang [...] calls the trout.at member for Finsbury (n.) under member, n.2
Sporting Gaz. (London) 22 Apr. 7/2: No doubt the second act [...] will excite more intense interest, and then, in the popular slang phraseology of the day, we shall have to ‘pile up the agony’ for the denouement in May.at put on an/the agony (v.) under agony, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 5 Dec. 3/1: [I]t is palpable, admitted even as a clever contrivance, that the winner, in slang phrase, had never been ‘intended’ this or that ‘journey’.at journey, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 5 Dec. 3/2: Some hitherto unknown bottled up animal ‘lands the pot’.at land, v.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 11 Jan. 13/3: A few battues serve to wile away the time until they can once more cross the pigskin.at pigskin, n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 18 Dec. 4/2: The Duke of Beaufort [...] have heard the term milking. Mr Serjeant ballantine: Does it imply swindling?—Witness: Certainly [...] Milking [is] laying against your own horse, and then scratching him, and that is what I consider to be swindling.at milk, v.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 6 Nov. 15/2: [A]t football it is useless to thing of ‘funking’ [...] and he who does so is not only laughed and jeered at by his companions, but is put down as a ‘muff’.at muff, n.2
Sporting Gaz. (London) 4 June 12/3: On Monday morning be thoroughly ‘lionised’ the Tower, finding time afterwards for visits to several of of our leading fashionables.at show the lions (and tombs) (v.) under show, v.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 11 Feb. 11/3: The fat’s in the fire, all’s exploded at last.at fat is in the fire, (all) the, phr.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 11 Feb. 11/3: And those who are ‘on,’ resting calm in their strength, / Think to silence all other ‘great guns’.at on, adv.1
Sporting Gaz. (London) 11 Feb. 11/3: Your tipster qui cito dat vere dat bis, / Misleading, but ‘boiling the pot’.at boil the pot (v.) under pot, n.1
Sporting Gaz. (London) 30 Nov. 10/3: [W]e fear, no matter what precautions might be adopted against their intrusion, that still (in their own slang) they [i.e. racecourse touts] would have ‘the best of it’.at get the best of it (v.) under best (of it), n.
Sporting Gaz. (London) 15 Feb. 18/3: [She] shocks her father by a plentiful repetition of slang and ‘fast’ phrases.at fast, adj.1
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