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touch
verb- to borrow from someone US
- Maybe he had a morning’s work in the produce market, unloading fruit crates, or maybe he touched one of his old pals for a fin. — Rocky Graziano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 10, 1955
- to subject someone to extortion or bribery UK, 1654
- You getting touched by anybody? — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 17, 1963
- to finance someone UK
- When I got out of nick all my mates got together and touched me that flat [...] Paid the deposit and first few weeks. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 13, 1999
- to have sex with someone IRELAND
- He was the horniest dog I ever met lads. The same fella would touch a cat goin’ through a skylight, I’m not coddin’ or jokin’ ye. — Billy Roche, Tumbling Down, p. 40, 1984
- — Adult Video News, p. 40, September 1995
- to swindle US
- More than anybody else a thief hates to be “touched,” for he despises the sucker on whom he lives. — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 115, 1952
▶ I wouldn’t touch it with yours
used by one male to another as an expression of distaste or contempt for a female UK, 1984
Here “it” is “a woman” and “yours” is “a penis”.▶ not touch it with a bargepole
used as an indication of extreme distaste or contempt UK, 1984
In many minor variations.- “Don’t think about touching her.” “Not with a bargepole, pal.” — Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden, p. 43, 1998
- [Y]ou would have to be criminally insane to want to touch Glasgow with anything less than a very long orbiting bargepole, and even then you’d have to throw in a night between the sheets with Lindsay Wagner as a sweetener. — David Aitken, Sleeping with Jane Austen, p. 4, 2002
- If I were you, I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole[.] — Roag Best, The Beatles, p. 130, 2003
▶ touch home
to communicate a feeling; to make sense US- “Like he’s close, man” (he is quite capable) and “touches home” (really makes sense). — Look, p. 49, 24 November 1959
▶ touching cloth; touching cotton
having an urgent need to defecate UK- Is there a bog round here mate? I’m touching cloth. — Roger’s Profanisaurus, p. 217, 2002
- [A] strain-faced male customer who was, in his own words, “touching cloth”[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 117, 2002
- Dude, I’m touching cotton... I’ll be right back. — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 237, 2003
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