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.
GAMS means: Gams is British slang for legs.Gams is American tramp slang for a girls legs.
ZAPPER means: Zapper is slang for a remote control.
strop means: Noun. A bad mood, a fit of fury. E.g."I got in a strop after that bloke knocked over my pint of beer."
flummox means: A failure. Foster is the greatest flummox the world has every known.
slab means: n. an older classic car that is in great condition. "Did you see Ray-Jay in that new slab rollin' down Peachtree? That whip is a beast!" 2. adj. In the south SLAB means slow, loud, and bangin'. "I only roll wit slab riders man."
Rubber in a bun means: Steak sandwich
dollar means: slang for money, commonly used in singular form, eg., 'Got any dollar?..'. In earlier times a dollar was slang for an English Crown, five shillings (5/-). From the 1900s in England and so called because the coin was similar in appearance and size to the American dollar coin, and at one time similar in value too. Brewer's dictionary of 1870 says that the American dollar is '..in English money a little more than four shillings..'. That's about 20p. The word dollar is originally derived from German 'Thaler', and earlier from Low German 'dahler', meaning a valley (from which we also got the word 'dale'). The connection with coinage is that the Counts of Schlick in the late 1400s mined silver from 'Joachim's Thal' (Joachim's Valley), from which was minted the silver ounce coins called Joachim's Thalers, which became standard coinage in that region of what would now be Germany. All later generic versions of the coins were called 'Thalers'. An 'oxford' was cockney rhyming slang for five shillings (5/-) based on the dollar rhyming slang: 'oxford scholar'.
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