pit
A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentleman's fob.
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pit against
to set someone or something in opposition or competition
pit-a-pat
The palpitation of the heart: as, my heart went pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy; the same.
pitch
A fixed locality where a patterer can hold forth to a gaping multitude for at least some few minutes continuously; "to do a PITCH in the drag," to perform in the street. An itinerant is said to "make a PITCH" whenever he attempts to do any business.
pitch and fill
Bill,—vulgar shortening for William.
pitch and pay
Pay up at once. There is a sup- pressed pun in the phrase: "to pay a ship" is*to pitch it.
pitch and toss
A game in which coins are pitched at a mark, the player getting nearest having the right to toss all the others' coins into the air and take those that come down with heads up. Hence, to play pitch and toss with one's money, prospects, etc., is to gamble recklessly, to play ducks and drakes.
pitch in
to contribute or help with something
pitch the fork
To tell a pitiful tale.
pitch the nob
PRICK THE GARTER, which see.
pitch woo
to try to win someone's love or affection
pitch-kettled
Stuck fast, confounded.
pitcher
The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.
pito
penis.
pitroom
A bedroom.
Pitt Diamond
A diamond of just under 137 carats found at the Parteal mines, India, and bought by Thomas Pitt (see DIAMOND PITT) in 1702 from a thief for a sum (said to have been £20,400) far below its real value.
pitt's picture
A window stopt up on the inside, to save the tax imposed in that gentleman's administration. PARTY WIT
Pitt's Pictures
"Blind" windows used to be so called, because many windows were blocked up when William Pitt augmented the window tax in 1784, and again in 1797.
pity fuck
a sexual encounter out of sympathy or obligation
pixel peeper
Someone who closely examines digital images for minor flaws
pizza table
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
pizzy club
A society held, A. D, 1744, at the sign of the Tower, on Tower Hill: president, Don Pizzaro.
placcy
plastic
place
To name the first three horses in a race. This is the duty of the judge, who sees nothing of the race but the finish. Sometimes an official will place more than the first three, but this in no way interferes with the meaning of the word as generally received. To run "nowhere" is to be unplaced.
place aux dames
Make way for the ladies; ladies first. Placebo (plas e' bo) (Lat., I shall please, or be acceptable). Vespers for the dead; because the first antiphon at Vespers of the Office of the Dead began with the words Placebo Domino in regione vivorum, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living (Ps. cxvi, 9).
place of business
A location where a person or company conducts their work or trade
place to be
The most desirable or popular location
placket
A woman.
plain and simple
Clearly and straightforwardly
plain dealing
Honest and straightforward behavior
Plain English
Plain, unmistakable terms. To tell a person in plain English what you think of him is to give your very candid opinion without any beating about the bush.
plaister of warm guts
One warm belly'dapped to another; a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.
plan for something
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
plant
The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods are concealed.
plant
A dodge, a preconcerted swindle; a position in the street to sell from. All bearings-up, bonnetings, and such like arrangements, are the results of preconcerted schemes or PLANTS.
plant a seed
Introduce an idea to influence someone's thoughts
plant one's feet
To stand firmly and establish a strong presence
Plaster of Paris
Gypsum, especially cal- cined gypsum used for making statuary casts, keeping broken limbs rigid for setting, etc. It js found in large quantities in the quarries of Montmartre, near Paris.
plate
Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venereal disorder: a simile drawn from horse-racing. When the plate fleet comes in; when money comes to hand.
plates of meat
The feet.
plates of meat
Rhyming slang for "feet"; often abbreviated to plates.
platform
A standpoint in an argument, a statement of political or general opinion. "Home rule’s my PLATFORM!" Originally American, but now general.
platonic bodies
An old name for the five regular geometric solids described by Plato — viz the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, all of which are bounded by like, equal, and regular planes.
platonic love
Spiritual love between persons of opposite sexes ; the friendship of man and woman, without anything sexual about it. The phrase is founded on a passage towards the end of the Symposium in which Plato was extolling not the non-sexual love of a man for a woman, but the loving interest that Socrates took in young men — which was pure, and therefore noteworthy in the Greece of the period.
Platonizing Christians
In the Gnostic systems, Jehovah (as an eon or emanation of the Su- preme Being) is the Demi-urge. See MARCION- ITES.
Platt Deutsch
The colloquial German common to most points of North- west Germany, bearing some relationship to Dutch.
play
To play booty; to play with an intention to lose. To play the whole game; to cheat. To play least in sight; to hide, or keep out of the way. To play the devil; to be guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.
play
To strike for higher wages, to be out of work.—North.
play a part
Contribute to a situation or event
play a role
to have an influence or responsibility in a situation
play all one's cards
To use all one's resources or advantages
play along
to cooperate or pretend to agree with someone
play around
to experiment or try different things
play back
to repeat or replay recorded sound or video
play ball
cooperate or collaborate willingly
play booty
to play poorly or inadequately
play both sides against the middle
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
play by ear
to act or decide spontaneously without a plan
play chicken
engage in a risky competition to see who will back down first
play Cupid
to help people fall in love