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dive
noun- a disreputable establishment US, 1867
- I’ve played the music in a lot of places these last thirty years, from Al Capone’s roadhouses to swing joints along 52nd Street in New York, Paris nightclubs, Harvard University, dicty Washington embassies and Park Avenue salons, not to mention all the barrelhouse dives. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 4, 1946
- After Chicago we thought nothing could make us blink. But some of the dives on 8th Street made it. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 33, 1951
- There is a similar story about a sidestreet dive which clipped a sucker for several thousand dollars and turned him out on the street. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 219, 1956
- Now you not going back on the road no more, and you ain’t playing no more two bit sleazy dives. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- My father was a Mexican magician. He never graduated from the border dives. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 119, 1990
- Do you call having pizza in the same dive pizzeria every night “eating out”? — Mallrats, 1995
- Yeah. This place is a dive, anyway. — 200 Cigarettes, 1999
- an intentional loss in a sporting event US, 1916
- Q. You think anybody is crazy who takes a dive? A. Yah. Sure. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 305, 1955
- What the fuck they want? I took the dive. — Raging Bull, 1980
▶ take a dive
to deliberately lose a boxing match or other sporting contest US, 1942- Why cause contention over a tennis game? So, burying her own competitive spirit, she took a dive, surrendering the game. — Nora Roberts, Dance upon the Air, p. 269, 2001
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