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词组 gee
释义 gee
noun
  1. a man, a fellow US,1907
    • From the first letter of “guy”; sometimes spelling “ghee”. To some people you’re a wrong gee. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953
    • Well, it took you gees long enough to get here. — Steve Canyon, comic strip, San Francisco Examiner, 17 September 1954
    • We was the gees on the first bench and what we said was law. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 43, 1957
    • After all, I’m not a heavy gee. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 14, 1969
    • Plenty of big ghees have been my clients, guys like Larry. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 137, 1977
    • He was one of six Mafia ghees in my conspiracy trial in 1970. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 159, 1979
  2. opium; heroin US, 1938
    Possibly a respelling of the initial letter of a number of synonyms, or from Hindi ghee (butter), or playing on the sense as HORSE (heroin).
    • — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 214, 1986
    • — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
  3. $1,000 US, 1936
    From the first letter of GRAND
  4. a piece of praise UK
    Possibly from the verb sense “to encourage”.
    • “I told him in this country we have the toughest street fighter I have ever seen. No-one is a match for this Lenny McLean.” I said, “Now, that’s a lovely gee, but you didn’t ask me down here to tell me that, I know.” — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 144, 1998
  5. a market trader’s or circus entertainer’s assistant who is discreetly positioned in the crowd to incite responses UK, 1934
    • [A] circus man who sits in the audience and pretends to be one of the flatties is called a "gee". — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 32, 1953
  6. a strong, respected, manipulative prisoner US
    • nA “gee” is not necessarily the most formidable physical specimen of his group. He may achieve his position by virtue of superior craftiness in “making connections” or “pulling deals.” — American Speech, p. 194, October 1951: “A study of reformatory argot”
  7. any device used to secure a needle to an eye dropper as part of an improvised mechanism to inject drugs US
    • You hold the needle on by tearing the edge of a dollar bill and wrapping it around the small end of the dropper. You call that the “G”. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 82, 1960
    • They pulled out two spikes, laid out two hypes / And rolled some one-dollar-bill gees. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 56, 1976
  8. the vagina IRELAND
    The term gives rise to the “gee bag” condom, “missed by a gee hair” (a near miss or accident) and the expression “do ya the gee?” said by a boy to a girl and meaning “do you have sex?”.
    • But he’d had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she’d said that — Roddy Doyle, The Van, p. 65, 1991
    • And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about. — Joseph O’Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, p. 7, 1995
  9. a horse UK, 1879
  10. a stolen car US
    An abbreviation of GTA (grand theft auto).
    • “We’re gonna roll to the store in gees.” — Colton Simpson, Inside the Crips, p. 36, 2005
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