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beach
noun
in prison, a shower room US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 22, 1992
▶ on the beach- in a fishing community, where people who do not fish are CANADA
Though cynical, this division of maritime humans describes the division in most fishing villages in Nova Scotia: people are divided between those who go fishing and those who work at fish plants, are housewives or farmers. - There are lots of fools at sea, but lots more on the beach. — Shelburne (NS) Coast Guard, 1975
- out of work US, 1899
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 23, 1960
▶ the beach
Saudi Arabia US
Gulf war usage.- “Desert cherries” in “Kevlars” fly the “Sand Box Express” to the “beach” and soon are complaining about “Meals Rejected by Ethiopians” if they can’t find a “roach coach” run by “Bedouin Bob.” — Houston Chronicle, p. 15, 24 January 1991
- — American Speech, p. 384, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
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