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oats
noun- sexual gratification UK, 1923
Usually in phrases such as: “have your oats”, “get your oats”, “need”, “want”, etc. Perhaps from “sow your wild oats” (to commit youthful indiscretion). - Chrissie will not get her oats[.] — George Simms, Sleep No More, 1967
- [S]logging all the way across the old Channel every weekend, just to get your oats. — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
- money which a carnival worker steals from his boss US
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 23, 1985: “Terminology”
- enthusiasm US, 1831
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 15, 1945
▶ off your oats
off your food UK, 1890- I make an excuse that this is not an unkind piece of culinary criticism, but that I am just not hungry/off my oats/etc. — The Times, 27 January 2003
▶ on his oats
(used of a racehorse) racing without the benefit of a stimulant US- — Igor Kushyshyn et al., The Gambling Times Guide to Harness Racing, p. 120, 1994
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