| 释义 |
stakey, a. slang (chiefly Canad.).|ˈsteɪkɪ|
Also staky.
[f. stake n.2 + -y1.]
Well provided with money; ‘flush’.
1919Camp Worker (Vancouver) 28 June 7/1 If they hold a job for a month they have done something out of the ordinary, and as a consequence, they are never very staky, and the question of funds comes first in most cases. 1927Amer. Speech II. 392/1 When a staky worker comes to town, his giving money to his impecunious acquaintances is called the pay-off. 1960Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Oct. 28/1, I wasn't going to go in, because at the time I wasn't stakey. 1970P. St. Pierre Chilcotin Holiday 31 On being assured that the prisoner was stakey, the mayor imposed a ten-dollar fine. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xv. 172 Why, we was making 15 cents a glass... Both of us were getting stakey as hell. |