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square
noun- a person with a conventional job and lifestyle; an old-fashioned person US, 1944
- A lot of the guys who hung around were squares who worked for their gold, more gamblers than gangsters[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 20, 1946
- ’Coz the good times is over / And the squares don’t have no dough — Jimmy Witherspoon, Skid Row Blues, 1947
- In Detroit, someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd, or in a less severe case, a scurve. — Newsweek, 8 October 1951
- Let’s get out and give the squares a booth. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 356, 1952
- She’s gonna marry this rich jerk from Chicago, a real square. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 134, 1958
- At each new knock on the door the callers would be screened to keepout such undesirables as square, fuzz, and hip-squares. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 109, 1961
- I’ve known squares I was at school with (prefects, monitors, scholarship-winners, all that crap) take jobs in INDUSTRY, as management trainees! — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 25, 1962
- Amphetamine, that group of drugs which are called pep pills by squares. They are also called psychic energizers. — Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippy’s Handbook, p. 12, 1967
- Q: You don’t think it’s for putting on the squares? RON: I don’t think people care that much about the squares. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 220, 1968
- We were both popular as squares. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 44, 1972
- I had out-slicked the law / and taken off a whole lotta squares. — Lightnin’ Rod, Hustlers Convention, p. 29, 1973
- a heterosexual AUSTRALIA, 1960
- They all want to run around pantsing each other and any one that’s normal is a friggin’ square. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 75, 1992
- a filling meal US, 1882
- He says, “Look, you get three squares a day, don’t you?” — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- Could he go to Allah for three squares a day? — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 211, 1963
- Have a good dinner, kid. You look as though you haven’t had a square in weeks. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 46, 1965
- I love the goddam navy. I get three squares a day, a pad to lie down on, roof over my head, tuxedo to wear. We’re living high off the hog. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 33, 1970
- They’ve been real good to your people–gettin’ ’em off the streets, givin’ ’em three squares a day, all them fancy uniforms. — Eugene Boe (Compiler), The Wit & Wisdom of Archie Bunker, p. 65, 1971
- [W]e can’t even afford a fuckin bed and three squares at a state hospital for Clyde. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 152, 1975
- It was also three squares a day and a clean barracks. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 70, 1977
- Life in the joint wasn’t so bad, he rationalized for a moment, the sun’s rays tripping him out, not if you had three squares a day, few hassles, and a chance to write as much as you wanted. — Odie Hawkins, Great Lawd Buddha, p. 27, 1990
- All they do is eat three squares a day, they live at home with mommy[.] — Hip-Hop Connection, p. 13, July 2002
- a factory-manufactured cigarette US
- A square is a cigarette. And also a quarter. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 148, 1958
- On the other hand that same San Rafael lass would be just as bewildered as you and I, were she to be strolling across the grounds of Mission High in San Francisco and hear one youth ask another, “Hey man, can you spare a square?” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 8, 27 October 1963
- She reached in her purse and pulled out a square / She said “Don’t worry, daddy, he’s no where.” — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 50, 1964
- — Mr., p. 8, April 1966: “The Hippie’s lexicon”
- I said, “Hey Jack, how you doing? That sure is a fine ‘silk’ girl, huh? You got a square to spare?” He flashed a cigarette from his red shirt pocket, handed it to me, and said, “Yeh Kid, she’s fine as a Valentine.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 35, 1969
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 67, 1971
- “Got a square, Joe?” Reaching for the Camels on his bedstand, Joe held his breath to wince in pain and was surprised instead to feel only a tightness. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 109, 1990
- a one-dollar note US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 110, 1993
▶ on the square- honest, truthful, trustworthy UK, 1872
Possibly from Masonic symbolism and jargon. - “Are you on the level?” he whispered. “Sorry?” I retorted, a bit indignant. “I mean”–he smiled–“are you on the square?” Then I twigged. This was freemason talk. One of their codes. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 45, 2001
- The guy was all policeman, 110 per cent on the square. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 95, 2001
- in a faithful monogamous relationship with someone AUSTRALIA, 1944
- You’re not married and you haven’t even got sheilas–not ones you’re on the square with, anyhow. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 13, 1954
- being a freemason UK, 1984
From symbolism that is employed in freemasonry.
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