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anchor
noun- a brake UK, 1936
Originally truck driver usage, and then widespread. - Coming down the Spit Hill he had to hit the anchors hard in order to avoid connecting with a woman and a child crossing the road. — Len Riley, The Kings Cross Racket, p. 13, 1967
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 4, 1971
- a younger brother or sister UK
A younger sibling is likely to hold you back or prevent you from going out with your friends. - — Susie Dent, The Language Report, p. 75, 2003
- an examination that has been postponed US
- — American Speech, p. 299, December 1955: “Wayne University slang”
- a parachutist who hesitates before jumping UK, 1943
- — John W. Mussell, The Token Book of Militarisms, p. 7, 1995
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 6, 1977
- a pick-axe UK, 1863
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 6, 1960
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