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drive
verb- to walk US
- — American Speech, p. 228, October 1956: “More United States Air Force slang”
- to lift weights US
- On November 5, 1980, while driving (lifting weights) on the lower yard, several of the Aryans spotted a white inmate who was carrying a snitch jacket[.] — Bill Valentine, Gangs and Their Tattoos, p. 13, 2000
- to borrow (a radio) US
From CAR (a radio). - — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 20, 2002
▶ drive a desk
to do office-work; to operate a sound-desk UK
Usually with a derogatory or a disappointed tone. After FLY A DESK[DJ Chris] Moyles was in pokey studios learning to drive a desk. — The Guardian, 18 February 1999 The example to which I referred is a higher risk industry than driving a desk in an airconditioned office. — Hon, W.R. Baxter, Parliament of Victoria (Australia), Hansard, 22 November 2000▶ drive a wooden stake
to irrevocably and permanently end (a project, a business, an idea) US- — Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords, p. 165, 1974
▶ drive the bus
to vomit US- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 63, 2001
▶ drive the porcelain bus
to kneel down and vomit into a toilet bowl UK
The image of the bowl’s rim being held like a steering wheel.- — Chris Donald, Roger’s Profanisaurus, 1998
▶ drive them home
to snore UK
From C18 “drive pigs to market”, and its later variant “drive the pigs home”.- Driving them home he was, officer. — Terry Victor, The Prince Albert Memorial Herb Garden Murder Mystery, 1997
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