| 释义 |
office
noun- a warning; a private signal UK, 1818
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
- [O]ne player gives the other a prearranged signal (gives him “the office” as the hustler’s argot has it). — Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others, p. 58, 1967
- “We’ll rap tomorrow after breakfast.” “Same office?” “Now what do you think?” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 38, 1967
- Within five minutes he gave me the “office” that some action was coming down the street. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 37, 1969
- any secret signal used by gambling cheats to communicate among themselves US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
- a hint or tip AUSTRALIA, 1874
- Cripes, she looked back twice. Practically gives a bloke the office she’s on. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 51, 1947
▶ give the office
in prison, to explain the way things are, especially to a new inmate UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 57, 1996
|