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Bulge. World English Historical Dictionary

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Bulge. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Bulge verb. (American).—The legitimate meaning is extended in many old ways. ‘Bags’ BULGE, but do not get baggy; and in a similar fashion when a man is ‘all attention,’ his eyes are said TO BULGE.

1   1888.  Puck’s Library, May, 31. ‘I hadn’t been downtown half an hour this morning, before I got a fee of ten dollars!’ Then the eyes of a man who was hanging on to a strap began TO BULGE.

2   TO GO or BE ON A BULGE, verb. phr. (American).—To drink to excess: see SCREWED.

3   TO GET THE BULGE ON ONE, verb. phr. (orig. American mining slang).—To obtain an advantage, TO GET THE DROP ON ONE (q.v.).

4   1869.  S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Innocents at Home, 18. Well, you’ve ruther GOT THE BULGE ON ME. Or maybe we’ve both GOT THE BULGE, somehow.

5   1885.  Household Words, Oct. 10, 466. ‘Smart chap, that Jacob, for a nig!’ remarked he, as we told him the outlines of our story. ‘I guess now he’s HAD THE BULGE ON YOU pretty considerable this trip.’

6   1888.  American Humorist, May 12. ‘Pop! are you up there?’ ‘Yes, my son.’ ‘I saw he HAD THE BULGE ON YOU and I got the gun and dropped him!’ ‘Right, my boy. That’s what I was praying for.’

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