| 单词 | gashouse district |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgashouse district C2. General attributive with the sense ‘in the vicinity of a gashouse’, hence (in North American use) used allusively to designate a dangerous or low-income area or its inhabitants. Frequently in gashouse district. Cf. gashouse gang n. ΚΠ 1877 2nd Ann. Rep. Board of Health Georgia 1876 App. p. xxxix The association found..the gas house district, on the extreme northeast, the worst infected in the city. 1915 G. H. Smith Felix O'Day xx. 306 Bobby had come home from school with a lump on his head as big as a hen's egg, where some ‘gas-house kid’, as Bobby expressed it, ‘had fetched him a crack’. 1926 C. Wood & G. Goddard Dict. Amer. Slang 20 Gas-house district, district in city unsuitable for living; abode of gangsters. 1934 R. Riskin It happened One Night in Six Screenplays (1997) 218 Gordon. Sure, sure, I got your copy. Why didn't you tell me you were going to write it in Greek?.. Peter. That was free verse, you gashouse palooka! 1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 July f8 The racing public was fascinated by the kid who grew up in Toronto's tough, east-end gas-house district. 1997 C. Carr Angel of Darkness (1998) 20 Any Gashouse tough..could've..used the park as a hiding place from which to jump unsuspecting passers-by. < as lemmas |
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