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floor
noun
used as a figurative or notional description of the place where out-of-work workers wait for a job referral at a union hiring hall US- I went to Local 802 to look for work. With the war over, the union floor was crowded with recently discharged GIs, good musicians anxious to reidentify themselves as saxophonists in name bands. — Larry Rivers, What Did I Do?, p. 37, 1992
▶ on the floor
poor UK
Rhyming slang; also serves as a metaphor.- — Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1960
- — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
▶ take off the floor
to remove a prostitute from service in a brothel US- The price for removing a girl from service, “taking her off the floor,” as they say, is one hundred fifty bucks. — Gerald Paine, A Bachelor’s Guide to the Brothels of Nevada, p. 112, 1978
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