| 释义 |
alky slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈælkɪ|
Also alchy, alki(e).
[Abbrev. of alcohol and (sense 2) alcoholic n.: see -y6, -ie.]
1. Alcohol; spec. (illicit) alcoholic liquor. Freq. personified in early use.
1844Akron (Ohio) Buzzard 25 June 3/1 After strong devotional homage before the throne of old King Alchy, [he] is in the habit of manifesting his affection for his family by severely beating them. 1858J. A. Stone Put's Golden Songster 15 ‘Old Alky’ makes their bowels yearn, They stagger round and fall. 1921P. & T. Casey Gay-Cat xx. 187 There ain't nothin' stronger in th' booze line than pure alky mixed with jamocha. 1927Amer. Speech II. 389/1 Drinking has supplied its quota of words to the vag's lexicon. Alki and hall come from alcohol and explain themselves. 1929D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Nov. 73/1 Ripping and tearing at each other..as to who shall have what in the way of business privileges of one kind and another, including alky, and liquor, and gambling. 1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 454/1 Alky, alcohol. ‘He's in the alky racket.’ 1962Parade (Austral.) Oct. 20/3 Soon Pretty Louie had his first batch of ‘alky’ cooking on crude apparatus in a broken-down Brooklyn warehouse. 1970R. & J. Paterson Cranberry Portage iv. 22 All they [sc. bootleggers] need is a shack and a can of alky.
2. A drunkard or alcoholic.
1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 3/2 Alky, alki, alchy... 5 A drunkard, esp. a jobless, homeless alcoholic. 1962A. Fry Ranch on Cariboo xx. 209 What it's like to be an alky, I guess. 1964B. Beaver Hot Sands 16 Ben Tickell, the regular night porter, was an alkie if ever she had seen one. 1970N.Z. Listener 21 Dec. 8/4 You might draw an alky who stops at every pub. 1983M. Gee Sole Survivor xii. 124, I had done an article on alkies, winos, meths drinkers, sleepers-out. 1986City Limits 9 Oct. 63 Nazi sympathizers, alkies, junkies and the unemployed. |