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salt
noun- a sailor, especially an experienced sailor UK, 1840
Often in the phrase “old salt”. - Up ahead, claims the old salt in the nearby saloon, lies big fish and bigger weather[.] — The Guardian, 27 July 2000
- an experienced veteran in any calling UK
- Serge smiled as he remembered how badly the young marines wanted to be salts. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 36, 1970
- a woman UK
Possibly by extension from obsolete (mid-C17 to mid-C18) “salt” (the sex act); possibly by abbreviation from obsolete (C19) “salt-cellar” (the vagina); most likely of unknown etymology. - [“]Who’s that salt over there then?” Harry pipes up. “That’s Gammy Gilberts sister”. — Ian Hebditch, Weekend, The Sharper Word, p. 133, 1969
- a drunkard BARBADOS
- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 95, 1965
- heroin US, 1971
From the appearance of the powdered drug. - — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 163, 1993
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 207, 2002
- plain tobacco mixed with marijuana SOUTH AFRICA
- — C.P. Wittstock, 23 May 1946
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