| 单词 | mexican side-loader | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasMexican side-loader  a.   Designating anything of inferior, fraudulent, or makeshift quality, as  Mexican bankroll,  Mexican promotion, etc.; (also) used in (humorous or ironic) names given to simple or basic devices or processes compared unfavourably with more advanced or sophisticated equivalents, as  Mexican overdrive,  Mexican side-loader, etc. ΚΠ 1912    N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 5 Mar. 14  				I'm going to be a mexican athlete. Throw the bull about being a fighter and get away with it. 1935    Amer. Speech 10 79/1  				Mexican seabag, a newspaper or paper bag in which the poor sailor carries his belongings. 1941    G. R. Lee G-string Murders xx. 286  				What was harder for me to understand was where Biff got the bankroll. It was no Mexican; the twenties went right through to the bottom.]			 1950    H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 138/1  				Mexican bankroll, 1. A roll of paper with a bank note of large denomination wrapped around the outside to simulate a bankroll—for use in swindling. 2. A roll of single bills wrapped inside a bank note of a large denomination to be exhibited for effect. 1955    Amer. Speech 30 94  				Mexican overdrive, a term used for coasting down hill with gears disengaged. 1960    N.Z. Listener 21 Oct. 7/3  				‘The banjo?’ ‘A shovel. Some people call it a Mexican side-loader.’ 1962    Western Folklore 21 28  				A ‘Mexican credit card’, (a hose and siphon used for pilfering gasoline at night) is known in the Southwest. 1971    C. Winick  & P. M. Kinsie Lively Commerce 117  				A pimp often has a ‘Mexican bankroll’, a large bill on the outside covering a roll of singles. 1994    R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 160  				Mexican promotion, an offensive term meaning an impressive new title but no increase in pay. < as lemmas  | 
	
| 随便看 | 
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。