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float
verb- in the gambling game two-up, to toss the coins so that they only give the appearance of spinning AUSTRALIA, 1945
- The coins were not spinning at all. They were being floated–that is, they were wobbling enough to give the impression that they were turning over but, in fact, the heads were remaining upwards during the time the coins were in the air[.] — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 51, 1982
- to eat after extensive drinking UK, 1983
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 63, 1983
- (said of an illegal gambling operation) to move from place to place US
- “Now the games in town floated from location to location each week.” — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 73, 1973
- Some of the games floated, meaning players met in an alley near Cross and Salem streets in the North End to be escorted either by foot or in a car to the secret location of that night’s gathering. — Gerard O’Neill, The Under Boss, p. 181, 1989
- to introduce into circulation US
- “They cash checks in there, and I’ve always thought about popping in there and floating some paper.” — Brian Boyer, Prince of Thieves, p. 102, 1975
▶ float a log
to defecate UK- — Bob Young and Micky Moody, The Language of Rock “n” Roll, p. 44, 1985
▶ float a sausage to the seaside
to defecate into a sewage system UK
The phrase may have originated in the comic Viz.- — www.LondonSlang.com, June 2002
▶ float dice
to drop dice suspected of having been weighted into a glass of water to see if they roll over on one side US- If you’re winning too much, he’ll also float the dice. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 136, 1997
▶ float the gears
to shift gears without using the clutch US- — Lawrence Teeman, Consumer Guide Good Buddy’s CB Dictionary, p. 53, 1976
▶ float your boat
to please; to make happy US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 1984
- [L]et us know which new bands are floating your boat the most. — Kerrang!, p. 3, 1 December 2001
- [W]e have to defend the rights of homosexuals to nail each other’s gonads to planks of wood if that’s what floats their boat. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 244, 2002
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