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shingle
noun- a name plate above a prison cell door US, 1961
- Above each cell door is a board, a “shingle,” with the inmate’s name and number. — John Martin, Break Down the Walls, p. 135, 1954
- The name-plate over his cell (a “shingle”), which formerly was white, now becomes blue and, as such, identifies him as someone who has committed a serious infraction of rules. — Arthur V. Huffman, New York Mattachine Newsletter, p. 7, August 1961
- a car number plate US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, 1976
- a lawyer US
- I spoke to Iggy Fitelstein. Iggy’s the best shingle in New York. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 95, 1958
▶ a shingle short
lacking a full complement of intelligence AUSTRALIA, 1844
From “shingle” (a wooden roofing tile), thus “a shingle short of a roof”.- Sometimes I think you’re a shingle short Bazza. — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 106, 1976
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