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pad
noun- an apartment or house; a room, especially a bedroom US, 1938
In the C18 “pad” referred to a bed. By the 1930s, it took on the new meaning and was spread by jazz musicians. Still heard, with a retro feel. - I told you about her? The big, red-head, six feet tall, who used to come down to Dennison’s morphine-pad on Orchard Street in the old days? — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 7, 1952
- I know this girl. She’s got a pad. I ain’t been there but I heard it’s all right. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 31, 1952
- Then we got like-a whole floor, a cool pad for you’n me, doll. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 167, 1952
- There were bars, honky-tonks and saloons, and lots of women walking the streets for tricks to take to their “pads” as they called their rooms. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, p. 8, 1954
- Red Riding Hood opened the door, stepped inside and looked around the room. “Wowie,” she said. “What a crazy pad.” — Steve Allen, Steve Allens’ Bop Fables, p. 42, 1955
- One day I was hanging around the campus and Chad and Tim Gray told me Dean was staying in a cold-water pad in East Harlem, the Spanish Harlem. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957
- Probably we’ll check into a Times Square hotel and look for a pad later in the week. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 95, 1961
- One agent gave a picture to an agent of a typical “smoker” in an apartment or “pad”[.] — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, p. 42, 1961
- But he thought a sister who gave me a “pad,” not charging me rent, not even running me out to find “some slave,” couldn’t be all bad. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 44, 1964
- Come in my pad, sport, look around. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 21, 1966
- I moved into a furnished apartment on “Sunset Boulevard,” ten minutes away from his pad. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 20, 1967
- I quit working for this outfit when the bad shit that was coming down because too much to take–a friend of the theater-owner, whose apartment we were using to film a lez flick–attacked one of the other chicks as she was leaving the pad. — The Berkeley Tribe, p. 9, 22–28 August 1970
- I got to the boss of pimpdom’s pad and when I first saw him I really didn’t like what I saw. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 134, 1973
- Spencer had a pad on 47th Street. It was one of the coziest pads in New York and one which it was an experience to visit for the first time and to always relax in. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 41, 1980
- C’mon. Show me the rest of your pad. — Clueless, 1995
- [W]e liked the Versace room and the pervy Gucci pad best. — ES Magazine, p. 3, 22 June 2001
- a bed UK, 1718
- You gotta have a date with me before you fall in my pad, darling. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, 1945
- One day along about noon Frank Hitchcock yanked us all out of our pads and took us downstairs. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, 1946
- A bed is now a pad. “I was in the pad when the phone rang.” — Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 11 October 1955
- a prison cell US, 1943
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 519, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 84, 1996
- a padded cell UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 65, 1996
- They dragged him down the stairs and into the pad–the cooling room for bad boys[.] — Howard Paul, The Joy, p. 29, 1996
- the bribery paid by a criminal enterprise to police US, 1970
- The “pad” refers to regular weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly payments, usually picked up by a police bagman and divided among fellow officers. — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 66, 1972
- He could hardly believe his ears, that Stanard would be so indiscreet about the existence of a “pad”–as the systematized police payoffs were called–that he could be that stupid. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 156, 1973
- A pad is what you’re on when you’re paying police not to do their job. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 23, 1973
- How long do you think they can stand it without the pad? — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 218, 1982
- an animal track AUSTRALIA, 1893
- We led the horses along an animal pad that zigzagged down the one accessible descent. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 79, 1947
▶ on the pad
bribed US, 1971- Those who make such payments as well as policemen who receive them are referered to as being “on the pad.” — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 66, 1972
- And it seemed the lady needed some help. She wanted to go on the pad. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 23, 1973
- Kept your mouth shut, right. Never made a wave. Kimo sabe, you was on the pad. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 165, 1977
- The badge showed that he was on the inspector’s pad and the telephone numbers suggested that he had connections. — Burgess Laughlin, Job Opportunities in the Black Market, p. 5, 1978
- It used to be a captain was on the pad, he let word filter down through the whole precinct that such and such a location was protected. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 38, 1979
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