| 释义 |
blue
noun- methylated spirits as an alcoholic drink UK
From the colour of the fluid. - The usual practice is to extend it [metal polish] with lemonade or a shot of blue. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 17, 1966
- [O]n a cold night, if you lie down, take a drink of the blue, and then pull the collar of your coat up over your head, “it keeps you warm”. — Robin Page, Down Among the Dossers, p. 122, 1973
- They [vagrant alcoholics] subsist on a diet of methylated spirits (jake or the blue), surgical spirit (surge or the white) and other forms of crude alcohol. — Peter Ackroyd, London The Biography, p. 359, 2000
- an amphetamine tablet UK
From the colour of the tablet. - You spent all night at the Scene, you took blues, you went home in the morning. — Maldwyn Thomas, The Sharper Word, p. 50, 1992
- I’d had a couple of blues and I was proper on it. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 117, 2000
- [T]he most popular pills were either Purple Hearts (legally made and lilac-coloured), or blues (home-made, or imported from France). — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 42, 2001
- a barbiturate capsule US
- — Norman W. Houser, Drugs, p. 13, 1969
- I laughed to myself as I pictured blues or dilaudid in such great amounts that the spoon would literally be overflowing. — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- Barbiturates are also known as BARBS, BLUES, REDS, and SEKKIES. — Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Robson, The User, p. 97, 1996
- a capsule of Drinamyl, a combination of dexamphetamine sulphate and amylobarbitone UK
A favourite drug of abuse for mid-1960s Mods. - — Liz Cutland, Kick Heroin, p. 104, 1985
- crack cocaine UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
- cocaine US
- They ordered cocaine or morphine by the pieces (ounces) and used the dope peddler’s slang or code terms, red or blue identifying morphine or cocaine. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 147, 1945
- Foster’s beer AUSTRALIA
- The basic requirements of a good “happening” were: an ample supply of “Blue” or “Green” (Vic. or Foster’s beer), the sappers, and someone fool enough to let it happen in his tent[.] — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- an argument, dispute AUSTRALIA
- — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 24, 1961
- Listen, this strike isn’t over me and Tich here getting our walking tickets, or about the blue at the meetin’ or sortin’ bottles, nor nothin’ like that. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 62, 1971
- a fight, a brawl AUSTRALIA, 1943
- Grab him. He’s trying to turn on a blue. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 69, 1957
- Then some more came, and there was a proper blue. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 50, 1959
- I had a commercial licence before the blue started over here. — W.R. Bennett, Target Turin, p. 103, 1962
- However, we received a call saying that there was a “blue” at a locake hotel. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 64, 1994
- an error, a mistake AUSTRALIA, 1941
- And so they left the immensely complex city of Sydney to its own devices, including Balmain–which could have been a bad blue on their parts. — Geoff Wyatt, Saltwater Saints, p. 81, 1969
- — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 190, 1994
- a police officer UK, 1844
- Couple of years ago, I just missed getting locked up myself, or maybe getting shot by a “blue.” It happened on a Mardi Gras. I was walking along and looked at a “fay bitch,” just a little too long. — Robert deCoy, The Nigger Bible, p. 234, 1967
- Let’s shoot through [go] before this dag [eccentric] yells for the blues. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- “If you want to be a copy, if you want to do for law and order,” Schoonover said sarcastically, “why don’t you put in your application? Be a blue?” — Robert Campbell, In La-La Land We Trust, pp. 26–27, 1986
- I’ll have one of the blues park it for you in the underground garage[.] — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 16, 2001
- a trusted prisoner with special privileges and responsibilies NEW ZEALAND
- Most inmates still wore brown or white moleskins but trusties, known as “Blues,” wore blue denim trousers. — Greg Newbold, Punishment and Politics, p. 76, 1989
- boy, as an affectionate or possessive form of address; a young male homosexual UK, 2002
Gay slang, current in UK prisons February 2002; possibly from the nursery rhyme “Little Boy Blue come blow on your horn”, punning on HORN - a black man US
A shortened BLUE BOY- — New York Times Magazine, p. 62, 23 August 1964
- If Mathis wasn’t a blue, he’d be a big movie star. — Diner, 1982
- a work protest NEW ZEALAND
- In many homes, all the men were involved in the blue, locked out or on strike in support of those locked out. — Listener, p. 33, 17 February 2001
- an oxycodone pill US
- One of the detectives called the pharmacy in advance to ask if they had “180 blues.” — St. Petersburg Times, p. 17, 13 October 2010
▶ on the blue
(used of a bet) on credit AUSTRALIA- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 59, 1989
▶ out of the blue
unexpectedly, suddenly and surprisingly US, 1910- “The call from Nasa came out of the blue,” [David] Harrington [of the Kronos Quartet] says. “I didn’t even know they had an arts programme.” — The Guardian, 6 December 2002
▶ under the blue
said of a rigged carnival game being operated with police protection US- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 27, 1985
|