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单词 in-and-out boy
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in-and-out boy
4. attributive (quasi-adj.) in various senses; spec. in-and-out bolts (see quot. 1850); in-and-out boy, in and out man, someone in and out of prison; a burglar; in-and-out class, those paupers who are now in and now out of the workhouse; in-and-out cottage, a cottage of irregular plan; in and out family, formerly, a family constantly entering and leaving a workhouse; in-and-out running, alternate winning and losing of races (so in-and-out football); in and out work, work which is not continuous; also, irregular or unlawful practice.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > nails, rivets bolts
rove and clench1336
scupper-nail1485
wrakling1494
ribbing-nail1703
filling-nail1784
Blake's screw1840
in-and-out bolts1841
scarp-bolt1867
pan head1869
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > alternate winning and losing
in-and-out running1885
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > action
brokery1602
trinketing1646
adultery1753
traffickery1838
hanky-panky1841
grafting1859
shystering1860
graft1865
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
in and out work1888
by-practice1913
grift1914
dirty pool1973
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > in an institution > occasionally
casual poor1593
casual1865
ins and outs1884
in-and-out class1897
in and out family1904
society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > temporary or casual work
notec1350
jobbery1832
catchwork1856
grass1888
in and out work1903
gig work2004
gig2015
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail
Newgate bird1580
bridewell bird1590
jail-bird1603
prison-birda1640
old hand1826
repeater1873
old lag1910
loser1912
in-and-out boy1937
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun]
housebreakera1400
burglary1533
burglar1541
burglarer1598
mill1607
mill-ken1667
hoister1708
crack1749
cracksman1819
screwsman1819
screwer1831
crib-cracker1879
cracker1886
key worker1895
houseman1904
home invader1907
in and out man1961
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. xvii. 182 What Ordination to that their In-and-out Office; have these succeeding and Momentary Presidents?
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 289 Ah! the in-and-out cottage! the dear, dear home!
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 111 In-and-out, a term sometimes used for the scantline of the timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bolts that are driven into the hanging and lodging knees, through the sides, which are called in-and-out bolts.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 126 In and out,..applied to those bolts in the knees, riders, &c., which are driven through the ship's sides, or athwartships, and therefore called ‘In and out bolts’.
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. June 699/2 Heavy-looking in-and-out corridors, such as one found only in German inns.
1885 Referee 26 Apr. 1/2 Now and again in-and-out running on the part of a horse subjects his owner to considerable annoyance.
1888 Times 26 June 4/5 Have you heard of what is called in-and-out running?
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xviii. 277 I began to hear that there was a deal of in-and-out sort of work about my getting my freedom.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 2/3 Children of habitual tramps and of the ‘in and out’ classes.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 10/1 His engagements are only for particular plays—‘in and out’ work.
1904 Daily Chron. 14 June 9/1 One notable ‘In and Out’ family entered and discharged itself sixty-two times from a London workhouse in one year.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands viii. 97 It was in 'n' out sorter work.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End v. 38 Oh, heavens! I've knocked the In and Out card down.
1936 H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration xv. 178 That does not close the Jewish problem for you. It merely brings you back to the fundamental age-long problem of this nation among the nations, this in-and-out mentality, the essential parasitism of the Jewish mycelium upon the social and cultural organisms in which it lives.
1937 C. Prior So I wrote It xvi. 191 Among the boys I knew, very few had either the courage or skill to tackle ‘live gaffs’ by night. Most of them were in-and-out boys. They did their eighteen months in Wandsworth or Pentonville, had a run of a month or so and went back to do a twenty-one or even a lagging.
1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? 221 An ‘in and out job’ is a passenger who comes back to his starting point.
1959 Times 31 Dec. 11/3 The discovery was announced in 1925 and met with a very in-and-out reception.
1960 Encounter Mar. 77/1 The In-and-Out Game is played... ‘Everyone’ knows that Hemingway is not so In as Faulkner.
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1143/2 In-and-out man, an opportunist thief.
1961 Times 14 Apr. 5/4 Two clubs who have had an in-and-out season meet at Old Deer Park.
1970 Guardian 12 Sept. 11/2 Israeli casualties were..high... The alternative..would be a quick ‘in and out’ operation.
1972 Times 15 Dec. 14/3In and out’ records through lapsing..are not uncommon.
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