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gaff
noun- a location UK
- Keith had visited the Balearics a few years previously and didn’t rate the gaff. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 2, 1999
- a place of residence; home; a shop or other place of business UK, 1932
- You had a drink in a boozer down the Nile with Freddie Stokes, then you went round to his gaff — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 122, 1958
- When he’s in London he leaps in and out of the bath at Rome Street, S.W.3, our gaff[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
- As I left the gaff, Fordy was cheerily bidding farewell to our hosts. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 107, 1999
- a prison cell UK
A narrower sense of “a place of residence”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 55, 1996
- a fair or fairground; a place of public amusement; a circus UK, 1753
- In the ring the joey [clown] was a “drip” (useless chap) from the “gaffs” (fairgrounds). — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 31, 1953
- a cheating device US, 1893
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 262, 1962
- There are fellows who laugh when they use the gaff / To take a sucker’s dough. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 162, 1976
- On the midway, he learned the art of “cake cutting,” or shortchanging customers, using “sticks”–carnies posing as customers preteding to win a big prize–and "gaffs"–concealed devices such as magnets used to ensure that the house always won. — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 37, 1993
- “On the Swinger, your pinkie is the gaff, so don’t get it chopped off in a bar fight.” — Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash, p. 2, 2005
- a device used to hide the shape of a male transvestite’s penis US
- Another device is the “gaff,” a cradle, usually made of canvas or denim, to which elastic hoops are attached. The gaff is pulled up tight at the crotch, the effect being to flatten the genitals[.] — George Paul Csicsery (Editor), The Sex Industry, p. 74, 1973
- a counterfeit watch US
- We call them gaffs in the mob or one-lungers. The mob’s jewelers can make any kind of watch you want. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 59, 1973
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