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pony
noun- twenty-five pounds UK, 1797
- Here is a pony for any inconvenience you may have been caused. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 39, 1956
- “Wot d’you ‘ave on him?” “Put a pony on ’im”. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 72, 1957
- I’m about to stuff my pony in my kick [trouser pocket][.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 39, 1962
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 63, 1989
- in betting, odds of 25–1 UK
Adapted from the previous sense. - — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 61, 1991
- a racehorse US, 1907
Used especially in the phrase “play the ponies”. - He played the ponies, got his tail, smoked cigarettes incessantly, despite his bad lungs, drank, sat up at all-night poker games. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 12, 1947
- He was married to woman by the name of Lisa, who had a pocketful of busted dreams of her own, but he still took what he could get, still played the ponies and still lost the farm nearly each and every time he tried to be a sport. — Robert Campbell, Juice, pp. 3–4, 1988
- Apparently, way it went, he invited her to come to Santa Anita to play the ponies with him. — Get Shorty, 1995
- a chorus girl or dancer, especially a small one UK, 1908
- The whole Ziegfeld chorus, from the ponies to the showgirls, would be hired to fan us with palm leaves as we lounged around in the sun, reading H.L. Mencken and playing Louis Armstrong records[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 131, 1946
- A new crop of lovelies had come up, were displayed and went on to Hollywood. To mention one, Alice Faye–a Hollywood Restaurant pony. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 28, 1948
- But here the feathers hang tired on the rumps of the floor-show ponies, and there is no self-conscious reading of Proust in satined dressing rooms. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 6, 1953
- Rita batted her rhinestoned eyelashes seductively like the Vegas chorus pony she once, recently, was. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 20, 1977
- a female who moves quickly from sexual relationship to sexual relationship, manipulating and using her partners US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 8, Fall 1999
- crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- a Pontiac car US
- Pony–Pontiac. — Lyle K. Engel, The Dodge Book of Performance Cars, p. 321, 1967
- in Western Australia, a small glass of beer AUSTRALIA, 1895
- Now generally 5 fluid ounces, though formerly 4, or even 2 fluid ounces. Obsolescent.
- “We got ponies, glasses, middies, an’ pots, see,” the first man said. “Now a pony’s four ounces--” The second man said, “Two to four.” “All right, two to four. But who the bloody hell drinks two’s? You keep quiet while I clue him up. A glass is five ounces, a middy is seven ounces, an’ a pot’s ten.” — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 15, 1972
- Others available were ponies, four ounces; schooners, nine ounces; and pints. But a pint, which is by definition twenty ounces, is not so in South Australian pubs. For some strange reason, known only to South Aussies, a pint of beer is fifteen ounces. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 30, 1972
- dried nose mucus BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 158, 1982
- a literal, line-by-line translation of a work in a foreign (usually classical) language US, 1827
- Then she would produce a Virgil pony–a Latina text book with English translations set in smaller type beneath each line of Latin. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 2, 1951
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