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gravy
noun- money, especially money that is easily and/or illegally obtained US, 1930
- We were in the gravy once more[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 131, 1946
- On this gravy you pay a maximum 26 percent tax, not the full graduated scale. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 71, 1954
- And what does Christ think of the easy-money boys who do none of the work and take all of the gravy? — Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront, 1954
- You getting all the gravy? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 189, 1961
- “And all that gravy you’d be missing.” “Right on! And all that unsopped up gravy”. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 156, 1985
- an unexpected benefit US, 1910
- A big turnover is the gravy for these guesthouses. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 68, 1951
- After this it’s all gravy. I’ve done it for five innings and nobody could ask for more. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 315, 1970
- in poker and other games that are bet on, winnings US
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 264, 1967
- any sexual emission, male or female UK, 1796
- Going down for the gravy [oral sex]. — Jack Slater, 1978
- blood UK
- You reckon inside some geezer’s Judge Dread [head] they got to have a load of gravy. Not this geezer’s. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, pp. 4–5, 1999
- a mixture of blood and drug solution in a syringe US
Perhaps from “gravy” as “blood” in C19 boxing slang. - Addicts call this “shooting gravy”. “Because that’s what it is – right? Cooked blood?” — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 78, 1966
- — Edward R. Bloomquist, Marijuana, p. 341, 1971
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 232, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
- sexual innuendo or bawdiness when used to enliven a dull script UK
A pun on SAUCE - Put some gravy on it – make it saucy! — an unnamed BBC Radio programme, 13 September 1973
- a prison sentence UK, 1950
Especially in the phrase DISH OUT THE GRAVY - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 58, 1996
- pasta sauce US, 1976
Mid-Atlantic Italian-American usage. - — Claudio R. Salvucci, The Philadelphia Dialect Dictionary, p. 43, 1996
▶ clear gravy
an unexpected bonus or profit US
An embellishment of the more common GRAVY- — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 52, 1975
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