two-forty
A very fast speed.
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two-forty on a plank road
A very fast speed.
two-four
A case of twenty-four bottles or cans of beer.
two-handed game
A game or proposal in which the chances are fairly even; a situation where one will get as good as one gives.
two-tap
To kill an enemy in two shots.
two-time loser
A person who has been sentenced to prison for a second time, especially for a major crime.
two-to-one
The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
twoc
To steal (especially a car).
twonager
A two-year-old toddler who is now more independent and difficult, involving refusals, demands and tantrums; a toddler experiencing their terrible twos developmental stage.
twonk
A stupid person.
twoosh
A tweet which exactly meets the 280-character (previously 140) limit set by microblogging service Twitter.
twopenny
A person's head.
twopenny rope
A rope stretched out in a low doss-house in order to suspend a kind of hammock of sacking on which a person can sleep.
twos
The cells located on the first floor.
TWT
A piece of fan fiction not set in any particular time period.
twunk
A muscular twink.
twunky
Being or resembling a twunk (“muscular twink”).
twunt
A fool; an extremely objectionable person.
twuntery
Extremely foolish or objectionable behaviour.
tyke
someone connected with Barnsley Football Club, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
type
Very, extremely.
type out
To write out on a computer keyboard.
type shit
An expression of agreement or approval.
type up
To type (a document) in its final, presentable form.
typewriter
A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
typhoon fifth
An 1800-ml bottle of spirits, especially sake.
tyre biter
A police officer.
TYs
Students doing a transition year.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Experiencing loss is better than never having the experience at all
Ta walk the Round
Lawyers used frequently to give interviews to their clients in the Round Church in the Temple; and "walking the Round" meant loitering about the church, in the hope of being hired for a witness.
tab
An ear.
tabby
An old maid; either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.
table money
A charge additional to that of the meal made at restaurants, etc., towards the cost of attendance; or a small fee charged to players at Bridge clubs; also, in the Army, Navy, and Diplomatic Service, an allowance made to assist in meeting the ex- pense of official entertaining.
Table of Pythagoras
The common multipli- cation table, carried up to ten. The table is parcelled off into a hundred little squares or cells. The name first appears in a corrupt text of Boethius, who was really referring to the abacus (<?.v.).
table scrap
Something of little value or leftover
table talk
casual conversation, especially at mealtimes
tables and chairs
Basic or essential items
Tables of Cebes
Cebes was a Theban philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and one of the interlocutors of Plato's Phtzdo. His Tables or Tableau supposes him to be placed before a tableau or panorama representing the life of man, which the philosopher describes with great accuracy of judgment and splendour of sentiment. It is sometimes appended to the works of Epictetus.
tabooed
Forbidden. This word, now very common, is derived from a custom of the South-Sea islanders, first noticed in Cook’s Voyages.
tace
Silence, hold your tongue. TACE is Latin for a candle; a jocular admonition to be silent on any subject.
tack
A taste foreign to what was intended; a barrel may get a TACK upon it, either permanently mouldy, sour, or otherwise.
tacked
Tied down. When a man has another vanquished, or for certain reasons bound to his service, he is said to have "got him TACKED."
tackle
Clothing.
tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.
tackle
Clothes.—Sea. Also to encounter a person in argument.
taco
The vulva.
taco bumper
A lesbian.
taf
Fat. A TAF ENO is a fat man or woman, literally A FAT ONE.
taff
A Welshman.
taffeta phrases
Smooth sleek phrases, euphemisms. We also use the words fustian* stuff, silken, shoddy, buckram, velvet, etc., to qualify phrases and literary compositions spoken or written.
taffy
A Welshman.
taffy
(corruption of David), a Welshman. Compare Sawney (from Alexander), a Scotchman; Paddy (from Patrick), an Irishman; and Johnny (from John Bull), an Englishman.
tag along
To accompany someone, often without being invited
tag-rag and bobtail
An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like a tantony pig: to follow one wherever one goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.
tag-rag-and-bobtail
A mixed crowd of low people, the lower orders generally.
tagger
The penis.
tail
A prostitute. Also, a sword.
tail wagging the dog
A smaller part controlling the whole
tail-buzzer
A thief who picks coat-pockets.
tail-down
"to get the TAIL DOWN," generally means to lose courage. When a professional at any game loses heart in a match he is said to get his TAIL DOWN. "His TAIL was quite DOWN, and it was all over." The origin is obvious.
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