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.
COME IT HARD means: Come it hard is British slang for to act aggressively or threateningly.
rent-boy means: Noun. A male prostitute. {Informal}
IDTBBF means: I Deserve To Be Blown First
PB means: Potty Break
crib notes means: Forbidden notes taken to an exam. Farnsworth couldn't past this test with crib notes.
chummer means: A male homosexual
break your back means: To exert yourself. Everything she says breaks me up.
nix means: to cancel something, to stop something from happening
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