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carpet
noun- a three-month period of imprisonment UK, 1903
A shortening of “carpet bag” rhyming slang for “drag” an obsolete term for “a three month sentence”; this origin is now mainly forgotten; therefore it has since been reasoned that “carpet” is so-called because it easy to do. - If I had pleaded guilty, the chances are I would have been sentenced to a carpet[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 125, 1958
- [S]he got nicked for a carpet[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 58, 1962
- — Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1969
- [L]ong enough to weave a carpet[.] — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 34, 1996
- a three-year sentence of imprisonment UK
- Charlie Shorncliffe came in to serve a carpet–three years. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 124, 1956
- in betting, odds of 3–1 UK, 1967
- — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 59, 1991
- a sum of £3 UK
- — Picture Post, January 1954
- — Brian McDonald (writing of the 1960s London underground), Elephant Boys, p. 203, 2000
- three hundred pounds, £300 UK, 2002
Ticket-touting slang, recorded August 2002. Also spelled “carpits.” - an artificial grass playing surface US
- — Bill Shefski, Running Press Glossary of Football Language, p. 22, 1978
- A kick off the side of the foot will cut in the carpet and spin like a tennis ball. — Washignton Post, p. D1, 18 August 1980
- — Mike Whiteford, How to Talk Baseball, p. 86, 1987
- What the Rams need to do to win: Give QB Marc Bulger enough protection, and ensuing confidence, to exploit a defense that isn’t at its best on carpet. — USA Today, p. 4C, 9 January 2004
- a person who seeks sexual gratication by being trampled
- The human carpet. — alt.women.supremacy, 21 December 1998
- — Angela Lewis, My Other Self, p. 30, 2010
▶ clean the carpet
(of a female) to masturbate US- Another way to say “the girl is masturbating” [...] Cleaning the carpet[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 67, 2001
▶ matching carpet and drapes; carpet and drapes that match
applied to a person, usually a woman, whose hair is neither bleached nor dyed US
A jocular suggestion that the hair on the head is of the same natural shade as the pubic hair.- Gwen Stefani’s wild pink hair. “Does the carpet match the drapes? Heh, heh, heh.” — OC (Orange County, California) Weekly, p. 6, 22 October 1999
- “I ended up doing the photoshoot in her bedroom because she has this real nice pink carpet...” And nice pink hair, half the time. “Yeah...” He laughs an utterly filthy laugh. “The carpet matches the drapes.” — Bang, p. 43, May 2003
- She then described how she and a friend discuss whether another woman’s hair color is truly natural. “What do you think: Does the carpet match the drapes?” she said with a cocked eyebrow. — Marion (Ohio) Star, p. 1A, 17 November 2003
- Annette indulged in more bed-top squirming, was carried like a sack of stripped potatoes, posted totally reviewed from the standing rear, and dared to reveal that the carpet did not match the drapes. — Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia, p. 57, 2005
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