Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Tally’s Corner choose

Quotation Text

[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 95: Shit. If they love them, would they let them go hungry? In raggedy-ass clothes?
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 144: ‘I’m going to the dance tonight [...] I’m going to down at least four women in the next twenty-four hours’ .
at down, v.3
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 166: The most common form of the pseudo-kin relationship between two men is known as ‘going for brothers.’ This means, simply, that two men agree to present themselves as brothers to the outside world and to deal with one another on the same basis.
at go for, v.2
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 122: A ‘new’ woman is, by common consent, more stimulating and satisfying sexually than one’s own wife or girl friend. The man also sees himself performing better with ‘new meat’ or ‘fresh meat’.
at fresh meat, n.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 111: if Leroy ever married Charlene [...] it would only be because [...] Charlene’s mother, Malvina, and her social worker were ‘getting behind him’ (i.e., putting pressure on him).
at get behind (v.) under get, v.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 241: He left me with the impression that he was being friendly and, in a left-handed sort of way, was offering me his protection.
at left-handed, adj.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 141: [f.n.] Richard [...] once ‘put down’ a woman of thirty or so, forgoing the pleasures of her automobile as well, because ‘She’s too old. I like tender meat’.
at tender meat (n.) under meat, n.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 140: [f.n.] [W]hen the subject is sex, and as the talk narrows down to one’s own person or sex partner, the language becomes less direct and descriptive phrases such as ‘I really laid some pipe last night’ tend to replace the more specific [...] labels for intercourse.
at lay (some) pipe (v.) under pipe, n.1
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 116: The hedge asserts that the man does not enter fully and freely into the marriage contract; that he was forced into it, went into it reluctantly, or was merely ‘going along with the program’ .
at with the program (adj.) under program, n.
[US] E. Liebow Tally’s Corner 20: Two shifts of two waitresses [...] fixing hamburgers, french fries, hot dogs, ‘half-smokes’ and ‘submarines’.
at submarine, n.1
no more results