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bubble
noun- an informer UK
From rhyming slang BUBBLE AND SQUEAK - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 31, 1996
- a glass-enclosed control panel on a vehicle of any sort US
- [T]hey had chest protectors up to their eyeballs. So many, in fact, that they kept the extras up in the chin bubbles. — Robert Mason, Chickenhawk, p. 402, 1983
- The tour of the ship began in the waist catapult control cab, known as the waist bubble. A similar control cab was on the bow, situated between the cats. Here on the waist the bubble sat on the catwalk outboard of Cat Four. — Stephen Coonts, Final Flight, p. 130, 1988
- an aeroplane cockpit US
- — American Speech, p. 122, Summer 1986: “The language of naval fighter pilots”
- in motor racing, a clear plastic dome that covers the driver US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 24, 1965
- in the television and film industries, an incandescent electric light bulb US
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 21, 1960
- a specialisation US
- Don’t laugh it off, buddy. Sweetheart scams are my bubble. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 298, 1997
- an instance of weeping UK: SCOTLAND
- I had a wee bubble. — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, 1985
▶ on the bubble- engaged in swindling as a career US
- Stuart Bates, like Carol Sesnick, was one of the few Bates family members who wasn’t on the bubble. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 357, 1997
- in motor racing, in one of the lower spots in the qualifying stage of an event, subject to being displaced by a better performance of another car US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 117, 1993
- in motor racing, the most favourable starting position (the pole position) US
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948
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