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Just playing (also J/P)
Used by hockey players to make fun of blacks playing basketball.
Playing Faro or poker. Also referred to as "bucking the tiger."
something or someone amazing (he wicked at playing cards)
a small, mean trader; an usurer with small capital; small cubes of tobacco used as stakes in playing cards
  Playing cards, syn. Broads.
 Playing cards. Ex. "Spreading the broads" = playing a game of cards)
PLAYING THE DOZENS WITH ONE'S UNCLE'S COUSIN
PLAYING THE DOZENS WITH ONE'S UNCLE'S COUSIN
Playing the dozens with one's uncle's cousin is Black−American slang for having the wrong approach to everything.
 A roundabout expression for dice-playing. To “crook the elbow†is an Americanism for “to drink.â€
Just playing (also JP)
Not going to school on a regular school day. Once thought of generally as a tool for boys wanting to go fishing, now generalized into skipping out of school for any or no reason. Today this would be marked as an "unexcused absence". Playing hookey has come to be generalized from the school world into the general working world - one can call in sick and really be playing hookey.
Color of skin vs. cricket's color (brown/black). Pure blooded Blacks having "large fish eyes, dark brown skin, and long legs like a cricket." Could also refer to Blacks that stay up all night playing loud thumping music, real common in the industrial Midwest.
using a matchbox cover to 'chase the dragon’
, (SCHMA-bin) v. pres. participle, Driving fast, burning tire rubber when starting out. Also: driving around in the car with a group of friends, playing the radio loud, shouting out. “Yeah, we were straight schmabbin’ last night.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth culture]
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
A shop that sells the ubiquitous british take away food - fish and chips. Often a cafe where school kids gather in lunch breaks (prob. in defiance of school rules) to buy lunch in preference to the revolting school canteen meals.
selling drugs
n 1. A young person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture group. 2. A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man. 3. A prostitute. 4. Music a. Punk Rock . b. A punk rocker.
v 1. To cheat; swindle. 2. a. To have intercourse with (a woman). b. To practice masturbation upon. 3. To play with. 4. To waste time. diddler n.
Coke is slang for cocaine.Coke is British slang for phlegm.
Tube is slang for television. Tube is slang for a coward.Tube is British slang for a person. Tube is Scottish slang for a fool.Tube is Australian slang for a bottle or can of beer.
A comprehensive table containing the entire ship's company. It sets out every seaman's place of work, their mess, and where their duties are in case of shipboard emergencies such as fire and flood. Also referred to as a "Watch and Quarter Bill".
an expensive item.
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a.
Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.
n.
A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
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Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
v. i.
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
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The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
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One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
n.
The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
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A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
v. t.
To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
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Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.
n.
A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.
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A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
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A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
n.
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
v. t.
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
v. t.
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
n.
That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.
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A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.
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