What is the meaning of CONNECTION. Phrases containing CONNECTION
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Time spent waiting for connection with other train
Emigrant family with its household goods and farm equipment traveling by rail; sometimes included even livestock crowded into the same boxcar. Zulu can mean only the car, or the car and all its contents. This ethod of travel was not uncommon in homesteading days on Western prairies. Origin of term is obscure. May have some connection with the fact that British homesteaders in Africa fled in overfilled farm wagons before Zulu marauders
General expression of disgust uttered when male pupils encountered spilt bottle of Tizer, strawberry milkshake, red biro ink, red paint etc. From an obvious (if childish) connection with menstruation and the magically dangerous superstitions it has carried for males far back into the depths of social history.
drug supplier
A famous Australian surf beach. Also used in connection with an old Australian saying, "to shoot through like a Bondi tram"
Watch (fob watch). That's a lovely kettle. I got the following from Dudley who wondered about the connection between a kettle and a watch - he passed on the following story:
Telephone connection between engine house and yard or telegraph office
(acr.) (v.) Disconnect. To lose your connection, usually involuntarily.
More or less a Wedgie. Kiki Rosberg was a Formula 1 driver, so his name was bastardised. Contributor doesn't know whether the racing driver connection had any 'skid' connotations.
to employ or be employed. From being used in connection with employment at the fishery, the word has passed into general used for any capacity, where a written agreement of service is made. “Shipping Paper†was used for practically all seasonal employment by the planter or merchant; for fishermen, shipbuilders, maids, etc
one pound (£1) or a number of pounds sterling. Plural uses singular form, eg., 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it..', or 'I won five hundred quid on the horses yesterday..'. The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600s England, derived from Latin (quid meaning 'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). Other intriguing possible origins/influences include a suggested connection with the highly secretive Quidhampton banknote paper-mill, and the term quid as applied (ack D Murray) to chewing tobacco, which are explained in more detail under quid in the cliches, words and slang page.
Middlemen who facilitate the connection between buyers and sellers
Connection is slang for a supplier of illegal drugs, such as heroin.Connection is slang for a relationship between a criminal and a corrupt official.
money. Pronunciation emphasises the long 'doo' sound. Various other spellings, e.g., spondulacks, spondulics. Normally refers to notes and a reasonable amount of spending money. The spondulicks slang can be traced back to the mid-1800s in England (source: Cassells), but is almost certainly much older. Spondoolicks is possibly from Greek, according to Cassells - from spondulox, a type of shell used for early money. Cassells also suggests possible connection with 'spondylo-' referring to spine or vertebrae, based on the similarity between a stack of coins and a spine, which is referenced in etymologist Michael Quinion's corespondence with a Doug Wilson, which cites the reference to piled coins (and thereby perhaps the link to sponylo/spine) thus: "Spondulics - coin piled for counting..." from the 1867 book A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools, by John Mitchell Bonnell. (Thanks R Maguire for prompting more detail for this one.)
A word used among some southern blacks in connection with buckra, as swanga buckra, meaning a dandy white man, or literally, a dandy devil.
To steal apples... as in "You going scrumping tonight??"... "Aye if the old bastard hasn't left the dogs in the orchard!". (ed: there must be some connection between this and the old word for rough cider... i.e. "scrumpy"... so if you know what it is please tell me!!)
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a.
Not allied; having no ally; having no connection or relation; as, unallied species or genera.
prep.
Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand.
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An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
n.
The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
v. i.
To become unfastened; to lose all connection or union.
n.
A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
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In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
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Unobjectionable; unquestionably excellent; as, a person of undeniable connections.
v. t.
To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.
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Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter.
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A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
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