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one-arm, a.|ˈwʌnɑːm|
[one numeral a. 34 a.]
Having one arm; using only one arm; spec. one-arm bandit (orig. U.S.) = one-armed bandit; one-arm joint or lunch (room) U.S., a cheap eating-house where customers sit in seats which have one arm wide enough to support plates of food, etc.; also ellipt. as one-arm n.
1906Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 3/2 Ordinarily I can do a one-arm press of 90 lb., but I must confess that I was almost beaten in getting hoisted some of these sheaves. 1912M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 297 Everybody's saying ‘Stop, Look, Listen!’..the white aprons in the one-arm lunch rooms say it now when you kick on the size of the buns. 1915N.Y. World Mag. 9 May 14 One arm joint, a chair dairy lunch. 1926New Masses May 9/4 Countermen in the one-arm lunches yell ‘coffee-and’ not so fiercely. 1931H. Mutschmann Gloss. Americanisms 43/2 One-arm driver, man steering auto with one arm and necking his girl with the other. 1935J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 6 One arm joint, a cheap restaurant where one takes his food to a chair to eat. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 6 Oct. 24/1 The Court of Appeals at Annapolis yesterday declared..that the so-called ‘one-arm bandit’ type of slot machine is illegal. 1939Detective Fiction Weekly 18 Feb. 36/2 A one-arm joint is a white-tiled place that suggests a clinic. Two long rows of armchairs line the walls. The right arm of each chair is expanded into china-topped slab. You park your food on it. 1940J. O'Hara Pal Joey 57 She went with me to this one-arm where I eat. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 27 Jan. 5/6 Three of the [slot] machines were described by police as the ‘one-arm bandit’ type. 1944B. Hope I Never left Home v. 63 He flew a plane back from a mission once holding his wounded copilot in his arms. That's one-arm driving that counts. 1951E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. (1952) xiii. 151 The iniquitous ‘one-arm bandit’ slot machines sprang up in bars and cigar stores. 1956S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 156 In the exclusive clubs, with few exceptions, you may see an array of ‘one-arm bandits’ ranged against the walls. There fruit machines—or poker machines—are usually rigged to work with shilling discs bought from the bar steward. 1960Times 2 Dec. 8/4 Six fruit machines, or ‘one-arm bandits’, were on display at Scotland Yard. |