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dig
verb- to like, to appreciate US, 1950
- [I]n five seconds a billiard tournament was going full blast, with spectators lined up around the table digging all the fine points of each player. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 20, 1946
- [T]hey seemed unaware of anything outside the realities of deals, a pad to to stay in, “digging the frantic jazz,” and keeping everything going. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 38, 1952
- They rushed down the street together, digging everything in the early way they had[.[ — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 8, 1957
- “Boy, is that sophistry!” said the young man. “Dig that sophistry!” — Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, p. 87, 1958
- The East Coast girls are hip / I really dig those styles they wear. — The Beach Boys, California Girls, 1965
- That’s all he said, and that’s why I dig my father. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 12, 1965
- In point of fact he is funny and very glib, and I dig rapping (talking) with him. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 46, 1968
- I dig department stores, huge supermarkets and airports. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 12, 1970
- I’m going to see the folks I dig/ I’ll even kiss a Sunset pig/ California, I’m coming home. — Joni Mitchell, California, 1971
- [T]he Count Five album, the one I’d dug so cool before[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 14, 1971
- [A] one-hundred-percent Bedouin with a pedigree goes straight back to the Prophet. Dig his bearing. Such pride! — William Burroughs, Queer, p. 71, 1985
- You’ll dig it [Amsterdam] the most. — Pulp Fiction, 1994
- He’s had enough. He no longer digs her. — The Big Lebowski, 1998
- to understand US, 1934
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 9, 1945
- I tried to write them down because I figured the only way to dig Bessie’s unique phrasing was to get the words down exactly as she sang them. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 53, 1946
- [T]hat will be a different kind of thing, of course. You dig? — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 155, 27 June 1948
- He’s really diggin’ this scene, man. — William “Lord” Buckley, Nero, 1951
- Now you all better dig this and dig it the most. — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- But you don’t need to have nothing except rubbers–until you can dig who’s a cop. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 48, 1964
- I’d rather hear you as your old sour self, Sam, than listen to how fast you can play that horn. All of you dig what I mean? — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 68, 1965
- Why don’t you all f-f-fade away/ Don’t try and dig what we all say. — Peter Townsend (performed by The Who), My Generation, 1965
- We didn’t dig why we needed to work towards owning bigger houses? bigger cars? bigger manicured lawns? — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 18, 1970
- That’s cool because for five months I ate and slept for no money at all, dig? — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 79, 1975
- They leaned in close to dig the words. — Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop, p. 452, 1995
- to bother, to concern AUSTRALIA
- The man was taken aback. “What’s digging you?” he blustered. — D’Arcy Niland, Call the..., 1958
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to inject a drug intravenously, especially heroin UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 44, 1996
- [T]hey have caught me a couple of times before actually digging [injecting] gear [heroin]. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 20, 2000
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
- in handball, to hit a low ball before it strikes the floor US
- — Paul Haber, Inside Handball, p. 65, 1970: “Glossary”
- in surfing, to paddle energetically US
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 115, 1963
▶ dig a drape
to buy a new dress CANADA, 1946
Teen slang, reported by a Toronto newspaper in 1946, and reported as “obsolescent or obsolete” by Douglas Leechman 1959.▶ dig for gold
to pick your nose US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, November 2003
▶ dig horrors
to be suffering; to live with trouble GRENADA, 1975- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 192, 1996
▶ dig out your eye
to swindle; to cheat TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1935- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ dig the man a neat ditch
in oil drilling, to perform any job well US- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 46, 1954
▶ dig with the left foot
to be a Catholic IRELAND, 1951
▶ dig with the right foot
to be of the same religious persuasion, in Northern Ireland a Protestant UK: NORTHERN IRELAND- [I]n Ireland the majority of diggers used the right foot...In Eastern Ireland, on the other hand, and particularly in Protestant districts of the north-east, the left foot is usually the digging foot... — Bernard Share, Slanguage, p. 85, 1997
▶ dig with the wrong foot
to be a Catholic CANADA- I think of what my grand mother and my Aunt Tena, over in Dungannon, used to always say to indicate that somebody was a Catholic. “So-and-so digs with the wrong foot,” they would say. “She digs with the wrong foot.” — Alice Munro, in The Story and Its Writer, p. 996, 1968
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