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Elbow. World English Historical Dictionary

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Elbow. 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. Elbow verb (American thieves’).—To turn a corner; to get out of sight.

1   1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

2   TO SHAKE THE ELBOW, verb. phr. To play dice. [From the motion of the arm in ‘casting.’]

3   1680.  COTTON, The Compleat Gamester. [Gaming is compared to] a paralytical distemper, which seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but SHAKE HIS ELBOW.

4   1705.  VANBRUGH, The Confederacy, Act i. He’s always SHAKING his heels with the ladies and HIS ELBOWS with the lords.

5   1709.  CENTLIVRE, The Gamester, I. (1872), i., 134. He is at SHAKING HIS ELBOWS over a table … courting the dice like a mistress, and cursing them when he is disappointed.

6   1713.  ADDISON, The Guardian, No. 120, 29 July. What would you say, should you see the Sparkler SHAKING HER ELBOW for a whole night together, and thumping the table with a dice-box?

7   1822.  SCOTT, The Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xvii.        To eke out your living   By the WAG OF YOUR ELBOW.

8   TO CROOK THE ELBOW, verb. phr. (common).—To drink.—See ELBOW-CROOKER. [From the action of the arm.] For synonyms, see LUSH.

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