track and field
Athletic sports involving running, jumping, and throwing events
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track down
To find or discover someone or something after a thorough search
track record
A record of past performance or achievements
tracks
"to make TRACKS," to run away. See STREAK.
Tracts for the Times
A series of papers on theological and liturgical subjects, published at Oxford (hence sometimes called The Oxford Tracts} between 1833 and 1841. They were started by the Rev. J. H. Newman (afterwards Cardinal Newman) with the object of arresting "the advance of Liberalism in religious thought," and reviving "the true conception of the relation of the Church of England to the Catholic Church at large.
trade board
An official council set up to regulate the conditions of labour in certain trades that otherwise might be "sweated.
trade follows the flag
Wherever the flag flies trade with the mother country springs up and prospers.
trade hands
be sold or transferred to a new owner
trade mark
The name or distinctive device for an article made for sale, indicating that it was produced by the holder of this device. In most countries trade marks are pro- tected by law, it being a misdemeanour to forge or counterfeit such a mark. In Britain and U.S.A. a trade mark must be registered with the Government in order to secure full protection.
Trade Union
An association of employees in a trade or industry, formed for the promo- tion and protection of their common interests in regard to conditions of labour, wages, etc., and often for providing its members with payments during temporary unemployment, sickness, or strikes, and pensions in old age.
trade winds
Winds that blow trade, i.e. regularly in one track or direction (Low Ger. trade, track).
trade-last -
A compliment offered in exchange for another. "I have a trade-last for you," means, "I have heard something flattering about you which I will tell you after you have told me a flattering remark you have heard about me." The phrase is common among juveniles and adolescents.
tradesman
One who thoroughly understands his business, whatever it may be. No better compliment can be passed on an individual, whether his profession be housebreaking, prizefighting, or that of a handicraftsman, than the significant "He’s a regular TRADESMAN."
tradesman's entrance
The anus.
tradesmen
Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves.
trading justices
Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly.
trailer park trash
People of low social class or morals
trailer trash
People of low social class or morals
train wreck
A situation that is completely out of control and has a disastrous outcome
Trajan's Column
At Rome; made of marble A.D. 114, by Apollodorus. It is a Roman Doric column of marble, 1211 ft. in height, on a square pedestal, and has inside a spiral staircase of 185 steps lighted by 40 windows. It was surmounted by a statue of the Emperor Trajan, but Sixtus V supplanted the original statue by that of St. Peter. The spiral outside represents in bas-relief the battles of the emperor.
trajan's victories
It is a Roman Done column of marble, 127£ ft. high, covered with reliefs representing over 2,000 persons, be- sides many animals. It formed the model for the column in the Place Venddme, Paris, and is now surmounted by a statue of St. Peter.
Trajan's Wall
A line of fortifications stretching across the Dobrudja from Czcrna- voda to the Black Sea.
transform and roll out
To suddenly and quickly change and take action
translator
A man who deals in old shoes or clothes, and refits them for cheap wear. These people generally live in or about Dudley Street, Seven Dials.
translators
Sellers of old mended shoes and boots, between coblers and shoemakers.
translators
Second-hand boots mended and polished, and sold at a low price.
Transportation of Convicts
A system of punishment by which criminals are removed to some penal settlement outside their own country for a period of years or for life.
trap
To understand trap; to know one's own interest.
trap
A "fast" term for a carriage of any kind. TRAPS, goods and chattels of any kind, but especially luggage and personal effects; in Australia, "swag."
trap sticks
Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
trapes
A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
trapesing
Gadding or gossiping about in a slatternly way. Generally applied to girls and women in low neighbourhoods, who wander from public-house to public-house, and whose clothes are carelessly fastened, causing them to trail on the ground.
traps
Constables and thief-takers. CANT.
trashed
drunk.
traveller
To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful stories, to romance.
traveller
Name given by one tramp to another. "A TRAVELLER at her Majesty’s expense," i.e., a transported felon, a convict.
Travellers' Tales
Tall yarns; exaggerated stories of wonderful adventures and sights. Telling such tales used to be called tipping one the traveller.
travelling piquet
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation:
tray trip
An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.
treacle tart
Sweetheart.
tread carefully
proceed with caution to avoid problems
tread down
To trample
tread lightly
to proceed with caution and avoid offending or upsetting others
tread on a worm and it will turn
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
tread on someone's toes
to annoy or offend someone
tread the boards
To work as an actor, especially in theater
treader
A bicycle.
Treasure Trove
The term applied to coins and other valuables of gold or silver found in the ground or some other hiding-place, whose owner is unknown. In the legal sense these objects must have been originally placed there with the purpose of concealment; gold orna- ments, etc., found in tombs or tumuli where they were deliberately placed with no intention of concealment are not treasure trove.
tree
"up a TREE," in temporary difficulties,—out of the way. American expression, derived from racoon or bear-hunting. When Bruin is TREED, or is forced up a TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. See ’COON. Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED. These expressions originated with Colonel Crockett, of backwoods celebrity.
tree hugger
An environmental campaigner, especially one who aims to restrict logging and especially one who uses dramatic, attention-grabbing methods of obstruction.
tremble and obey
to obey someone or something with fear or reluctance
trench derby
A tin hat.
Trench Fever
A remittent or relapsing fever affecting men living in trenches, dug-outs, etc., and transmitted by the excrement of lice. It first appeared in World War I, in the static warfare on the western front.
trench mouth
a severe form of gum disease
trencher cap
The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
trencher friends
Persons who cultivate the friendship of others for the sake of sitting at their board, and the good things they can get.
trencher knight
A table knight, a suitor from cupboard love.
trencher man
A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.
trial and error
a method of learning by trying different approaches
trial balloon
A test of public opinion or reaction to an idea
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