whole nine yards means: Phrs. The complete amount, all of it, totally. Much speculation as to its origins but essentially unknown. [Orig. U.S.]
whole nine yards means: Phrs. The complete amount, all of it, totally. Much speculation as to its origins but essentially unknown. [Orig. U.S.]
whole nine yards means: Phrs. The complete amount, all of it, totally. Much speculation as to its origins but essentially unknown. [Orig. U.S.]
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YARDS means: TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
YARDS means: TRAIN YARDS WHERE TRAINS ARE STORED AND PARKED AND WHERE WRITERS BOMB
full nine yards means: Phrs. The complete amount. Less common variation on 'the whole nine yards'. Much speculation as to its origins but essentially unknown. [Orig. U.S.]
FEET AND YARDS means: Feet and yards is London Cockney rhyming slang for playing cards.
Man the Yards means: On square:rigged ships, a form of ceremonial salute to honor the visit of a high official. The yards were lined by men standing upon them, and there was also a man standing on the truck of each topgallant mast.
Square Rigger means: Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal spars called yards. A sailing:ship rig with rectangular sails set approximately at right angles to the keel line from horizontal yards.
Scandalize means: A method of reducing sail in a fore:and:aft rig by hauling up the tack and lowering the peak of a sail. It was used by older sailing trawlers to reduce speed through the water while operating a trawl. Also the yards in a square:rigged ship are said to be scandalized when they are not set square to the masts after the ship has anchored. Scandalizing the yards of a ship was a sign of mourning for a death on board.
YARDS means: Montagnard soldiers. Pg. 523
SQUEEZERS means: Car-retarding system used in some railroad yards
Gasket means: Ties used to tie up the sails when they are furled to the boom or yards.
all-T-Taint-O means: fully rigged masts and yards (see tant)
Topmen means: Seamen who worked on the masts and yards of square:rigged ships.
collar means: place where a fishing boat is anchored for the night or “Sunday”, just a few yards from the stage
Crack On means: To carry sail to the full limit of strength of masts, yards, and tackles.
Lifts means: On square:rigged ships, the lines which are lead from the masthead to the ends of the yards to support them.
DOODAH means: Doodah is slang for the penis.Doodah is slang for an unspecified thing.
mothers ruin means: Gin.
cracktivities director means: The person at a party that has drugs or a drug dealer
ogles means: Eyes. This is an example of the polari underground gay language used in the British Merchant Marine.
telephonicophilia means: A person with this fetish is sexually aroused by talking dirty on the phone or being talked to lewdly.
MONKEY TRANQUILIZER means: PCP
NP means: Stands for Nail Polish.
TALLOWPOT means: Locomotive fireman, so called from melted tallow used to lubricate valves and shine the engine
shekels/sheckles means: money. Not always, but often refers to money in coins, and can also refer to riches or wealth. From the Hebrew word and Israeli monetary unit 'shekel' derived in Hebrew from the silver coin 'sekel' in turn from the word for weight 'sakal'.
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