| 释义 |
ˈpunch board N. Amer.
Also with hyphen and as one word.
[punch n.2]
a. A board perforated with holes containing slips of paper which are ‘punched’ out as a form of gambling, with the object of locating a winning slip.
1912J. P. Quinn Gambling & Gambling Devices 231 (caption) Punch board. 1935J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat xvii. 315 Tito Ralph came in with a box of cigars he had won on a punch board. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 12 Sept. 7/4 The worst form of petty gambling seems to be confined to punch boards. 1949Democrat 15 Dec. 4/1 We would like to amend his paragraph to include punch boards. 1951Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Mar. 10/4 The sale of punch⁓boards (gambling machines) was running at about $100 millions a year. 1966Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. x/4 Any dice game, three-card monte, punch board. 1978Rugby World Apr. 50 (Advt.), Now available New Lakeland (tamper proof)..Football cards & Punchboards.
b. fig. A promiscuous woman.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 173 A female who is dated because of her lax sexual habits..punch... The word punch may well be a shortened form of punchboard, which was recorded twice. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 267 Girls who pride themselves on their monogamous instincts..speak of the ‘campus punchboard’. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) iii. 23 There's one woman handler, named Wilma. A punchboard. What the hell, she's a little dumpy, but when you been looking at dogs all day. |