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corner
noun- in horse racing, a share of the winnings AUSTRALIA
- One might ask another, “Did you get your corner?” — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 17, 1989
- the block in a prison where the cells for solitary confinement are found US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 795, 1962
- a prisoner’s group of friends US
- — Jeffrey Ian Ross, Behind Bars, p. 184, 2002: Slammer Slang
- a youth gang US
- They did not like to be called “gangs,” but referred to themselves as “cliques” in New York and “corners” in Philadelphia. — James Haskins, Street Gangs, p. 124, 1974
▶ around the corner
in poker, said of a sequence of cards that uses the ace as both a high and low card US- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 6, 1988
▶ cut a corner; cut corners; cut the corners
to perform any task in a manner that minimises time, effort or expense, but for equal profit or even greater gain, and perhaps at the cost of safe practice or legality UK, 1957
From the conventional, literal sense.- Nobody was cutting corners, nobody was trying to do it on the cheap, nobody was putting lives at risk. — Guardian, 30 May 2003
▶ in the corner
on a fishing or lobstering boat, fully throttled US- — Kendall Merriam, The Illustrated Dictionary of Lobstering, p. 51, 1978
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