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meatball
noun- a dim-witted, gullible person US, 1939
- “You must be the friend,” “Winnie,” Mitch looked at him, “who loaned this meatball the five hundred?” — Irving Shulman, Cry Tough, p. 158, 1949
- Well, anyhow, Grady Metcalf, who is one of the really big meatballs of our generation and I hate him like poison, he took me out riding on his motorcyle, and you know what? All of a sudden, he didn’t seem like such a meatball! — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 168, 1957
- “And there’s all these assorted pimps, junkies and meatballs who don’t even live here, standing around waiting[.]” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 28, 1971
- And Tony Parisi is nothing but a New York tenement house meatball who made good. — Gerald Petievich, Shakedown, p. 63, 1988
- a false or petty criminal charge US, 1944
- That’s a meatball rap, you’ll get out tomorrow. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 240, 1952
- [E]ven Jackson Prison was used to lock-up for all the niggers the police were arresting on a lot of bullshit, meatball charges. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 9, 1973
- You guys picked me up on a meatball. I ain’t robbed nobody, so you ain’t got no case on me. — Donald Goines, Crime Partners, p. 103, 1978
- a coloured light that serves as a visual aid in an optical landing system for an aeroplane landing on an aircraft carrier US, 1957
- He had to see the meatball, the yellow light between the two green reference, or datum, lights of the optical landing system. — Stephen Coonts, Final Flight, p. 99, 1988
- [H]e could start to discern the “meatball”–a mirrored device reflecting a grapefruit-sized orange light, flanked on either side by a line of smaller green lights. — Robert Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, p. 35, 1990
- (Royal Canadian Navy, 1950s to 1969). Finally I broke free of the cloud layer; then all I had to do was fly the meatball down onto the deck. — Oral citation from Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing, 1995
- in horse racing, a combination of cathartics administered to a horse US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 12, 1951
- a prostitute’s customer US
- [E]levator operators were recruited to steer the customers–the “Johns” or “meatballs”–to the selected suites. — Jess Stearn, Sisters of the Night, p. 5, 1956
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