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nose
noun- cocaine US, 1980
- Nadeau’s wife, Helena, beautiful broad, had a disease, too. Cocaine. Two-hundred-dollar-a-day nose. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 23, 1988
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 80, 1996
- Bit of a drug fiend, I hear. Got a nose for nos. — Andrew Holmes, Sleb, p. 295, 2002
- Do you wan’t this nose then? — Colin Butts, Is Harry Still on the Boat?, p. 159, 2003
- in horse racing, any very short distance that separates winner from loser US, 1908
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 44, 1951
- an informer UK, 1789
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 80, 1996
- an innate ability to find things UK, 1875
- What they lack is a daring business man with a nose for a good investment[.] — Observer, 1 February 2004
▷ see:NOSEY
▶ get up your nose- to annoy UK, 1951
- But what gets up my nose is that MI5, or whoever, is listening to my private conversations. — Guardian, 29 March 2003
- to irritate, to anger US, 1968
- Then some dippy blouse in a Volvo in front gets up my nose cos of the way she hits the brakes whenever a car comes down the opposite lane. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 53, 1997
▶ get your nose bent
to be convicted of a traffic violation US- — American Speech, p. 269, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
▶ get your nose cold
to use and become intoxicated on cocaine US- — Edith A. Folb, Runnin’ Down Some Lines, p. 239, 1980
▶ have a nose for someone
to be sexually attracted to (someone) US- Suppose I fix you up with Baby here. You always had a nose for her. — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 57, 1958
▶ have your nose open
to be strongly attracted to US- That’s what I intend to do, only trouble is m’nose opens up and I can’t tell what I’m doing. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 257, 1957
- She a fox too. I think Jimmy strung out behind her. His nose is wide open. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 63, 1968
- What about that gray girl in San Jose who had your nose wide open? — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 9, 1968
- I only told him Giveadamn had my nose open and it wasn’t a comfortable feeling. — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 13, 1978
- My nose is still open for that yellow, stinking, skunk, lousy, junkie ‘ho. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 104, 1979
- Most working girls were like that, their noses open wider than their cunts. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 7, 1990
▶ keep your nose to the grindstone; put your nose to the grindstone
to be (or start) studying hard, working hard UK, 1828
From earlier senses denoting harsh treatment.- The branch manager gave everyone an update on the bank’s overall targets, made a little pep talk, and all would be nose to the grindstone for the rest of the day: sell, sell, sell. — Guardian, 22 March 2003
▶ on the nose- exactly US, 1883
- This poem [by Saul Bellow] called Wonder hits it right on the nose. — Guardian, 10 September 1997
- in horse racing, a bet on a horse to finish first US, 1980
- — Robert Saunders Dowst and Jay Craig, Playing the Races, p. 166, 1960
- (used of a person’s bet in an illegal numbers gambling lottery) invariably the same US
- — American Speech, p. 192, October 1949
- at the start of a song US
- — Arnold Shaw, Dictionary of American Pop/Rock, p. 267, 1982
- smelly AUSTRALIA
- “Christ! Alec,” he complained. “This bait’s a bit on the nose, ain’t it?” — Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, p. 86, 1946
- The pommie habit of wearing woollen socks with sandals has given a lot of our Brit visitors the reputation of being on the nose[.] — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 32, 1985
- (used of ocean water) polluted AUSTRALIA
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 83, 1991
- recreational time spent under the influence of inhaled drugs UK
Compares with ON THE TILES - [Opiates] will also soothe your nerves after an E too many or a night on the nose–at least that’s what my friends tell me. — Julian Keeling, Drugstore Cowboy [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 115, 1996
▶ put your nose out of joint
to annoy, to upset the plans of, to inconvenience, to disconcert UK, 1576- [It] would hardly put Washington’s nose out of joint for the leader of the British Lib Dems to criticise President Bush[.] — Guardian, 26 September 2002
▶ shove your nose in; stick your nose in
to interfere, to interpose rudely UK, 1887- What on earth do they think they’re doing, sticking their nose in our business? — Guardian, 8 November 2000
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