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gear
noun- marijuana; heroin; drugs in general US, 1954
- Cannabis sativia is better known to us by its Spanish-Mexican name, Marijuana. Or pot, grass, weed, dope, gear, Kiwi green. — R. Rose, New Zealand Green, p. 5, 1976
- — Liz Cutland, Kick Heroin, 1985
- It takes a hell of a long time to come when you are on gear and it was great when the chick didn’t know you were stoned. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1996
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 56, 1996
- [S]o strung out on all that free gear that they couldn’t be bothered. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 271, 1999
- [T]hey have caught me a couple of times before actually digging [injecting] gear [heroin]. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 20, 2000
- They do smoke gear after all. — “Skymail”, Sky Magazine, p. 11, May 2001
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 206, 2002
- anything, especially anything illicit, intentionally undefined AUSTRALIA, 1975
Included in the “Australian Underworld Terms Current in 1975“ appendix to the 8th edition of Partridge”s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English with the notation “peculiarly Australian cant”. - the equipment and paraphernalia associated with drug use, especially syringes, etc. UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 56, 1996
- stolen goods UK
- It would have been too dodgy swagging gear into Bella’s drum at 3 a.m. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 22, 1956
- It’s nothing silly, it’s just a bit of gear I knock out to a few reliable fellas. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 31, 2001
- stuff, things UK, 1415
- The hitch-hiker hoisted his gear in and stuffed it on the floor. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 11, 1971
- clothes AUSTRALIA, 1970
Recorded in the US in Newsday, 11th October 1997. - Do you think she should be played by a girl who strips at every orgy in town and expects to be fucked the instant her gear’s off? — Janie Stagestruck, p. 101, 1972
- — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 124, 1992
- (of a woman) the obvious physical attributes US
Extended from the purely genital sense. - “Wonder gear,” it developed, is an attractive girl, in Navy lingo[.] — San Francisco News, 14 October 1953
- So, obviously, is Joey Heatherton. Her gear is mobile, shapely and slender. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 19, 14 Januay 1965
- You’ll be [...] having a smoke and a laugh with the lads, clocking the gear on the little honeys in the queue[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 66, 2001
- a homosexual US
- A couple of gears own it; they dress in drag. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 113, 1972
▶ get your arse into gear; get your ass into gear
to stop idling, to apply yourself to an activity, to start doing something useful US, 1914- I’m not gonna stand around here when I got to get my ass in gear tomorrow morning[.] — George V. Higgins, The Judgment of Deke Hunter, p. 50, 1976
- She tells–no, commands–Edgar to get his arse into gear, fast. — Sunday Times (South Africa), 15 June 2003
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