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park verb- to (temporarily) place something or someone in a position of some safety or convenience UK, 1908
Often extended–in worldwide variations–as an invitation or imperative: “park your arse!” “park your carcass!” “park your fanny!” “park your frame!” and, the nautically inspired, “park your stern!”. - A whiff of the salmon from the skid parked on the sideboard beside the chronometer cases put spit in my mouth. — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 65, 1945
- If you’re hungry, park yourself at one of the restaurants at the port. — International Travel News, May 2003
- to stay at a place for a short time AUSTRALIA
- “Where do we all park?” Jessie considered. “For a fortnight we can all be one big happy family. Now, let’s see–Dexter, you can share with Ashleigh, I’ll move in with Janie, my mother can have the spare room, and your other can have our bedroom.” — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 102, 1961
- to engage in sexual foreplay in a parked car US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 168, 1968
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 16, 1972
- to give UK
A shortening of obsolete PARKER- — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, 1972
▶ park a custard to vomit UK Upper-class society usage.- — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 159, 1982
▶ park a tiger; park the tiger to vomit AUSTRALIA, 1985- I’d better stick near the rail in case I need to park the tiger. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off, 1971
- There is nothing worse or more inconsiderate than a girl who parks a tiger in your car just after you’ve got her nicely topped up and ready for action. — (Barry Humphries), The Traveller’s Tool, p. 55, 1985
▶ park it (of a person) to sit down AUSTRALIA- He slapped a fat thigh. “Come on, park it here, honey.” — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 31, 1962
▶ park the ball in pool, to leave the cue ball roughly in the centre of the table after an opening break shot US, 1992- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 167, 1993
▶ park your carcass (of a person) to sit down AUSTRALIA- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 68, 1977
- “Park your carcass,” he said. “Take the load.” — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 100, 1998
▶ where I’d like to park my bike said by a man of a woman considered as a sexual object UK, 2003 The wheel of a bicycle is held in a slot, which puns on vagina. |