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sweet
adjective- all right UK, 1890
- She went a bit crook, but she’ll be sweet. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 136, 1957
- “I’m down to one twenty gallons, over.” “You’ll be sweet.” — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 14, 1961
- I reckon you’d chaps would be sweet for smuggling scarce goods back to Australia after your trip up to Hong Kong. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 30, 1962
- He gave John the address, told him to mention his name and promised he’d be “sweet” — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 104, 1966
- Green lawns all around, vista of the harbour, Holden in the garage, I’m sweet. — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 18, 1969
- If Parker can pick up a few crumbs from this, he’d be sweet. — Peter Corris, Make Me Rich, p. 144, 1985
- “What’s been said here goes no further. Thanks for your help.” Ray and Joe exchanged glances and nodded. “It’s sweet Nicko, it’ll go no further.” — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 78, 1988
- excellent; in style; admirable US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Spring 1982
- Dude, that movie was fucking sweet! — South Park, 1999
- amenable UK
A shift in the earlier (C18–19) sense as “gullible, unsuspicious”. - He’ll be in the office in a coupla hours. And I want him sweet! — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 59, 1999
- when combined in phrases meaning nothing, absolute UK, 1958
- [T]he main female character was long-legged, pretty and did sweet nothing apart from pout. — Guardian Unlimited, 20 June 2003
- homosexual US
- I never bother to think whether someone will consider me sweet. I’m confident in my masculinity. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 12, 1972
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 71, 2002
- drunk BARBADOS
- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 107, 1965
- said of a supplemental loan in an illegal loan business US
- For a loanshark like Valachi, this was where the real windfall lay—in a reloan, or as it is called in shylocking circles, the “sweet” loan. — Peter Maas, The Valachi Papers, p. 168, 1968
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