| 单词 | bang up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bang up transitive. British slang (originally Criminals' slang). to bang up: to lock up, imprison, detain in custody; to confine (a prisoner) to a cell; (in extended use) to confine to a particular place. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] beclosec1000 setc1100 steekc1175 prison?c1225 adightc1275 imprison1297 laya1325 keepc1330 presentc1380 locka1400 throwc1422 commise1480 clapc1530 shop1548 to lay up1565 incarcerate1575 embar1590 immure1598 hole1608 trunk1608 to keep (a person) darka1616 carceir1630 enjaila1631 pocket1631 bridewell1733 bastille1745 cage1805 quod1819 bag1824 carcerate1839 to send down1840 jug1841 slough1848 to send up1852 to put away1859 warehouse1881 roundhouse1889 smug1896 to bang up1950 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] beloukOE loukOE sparc1175 pena1200 bepen?c1225 pind?c1225 prison?c1225 spearc1300 stopc1315 restraina1325 aclosec1350 forbara1375 reclosea1382 ward1390 enclose1393 locka1400 reclusea1400 pinc1400 sparc1430 hamperc1440 umbecastc1440 murea1450 penda1450 mew?c1450 to shut inc1460 encharter1484 to shut up1490 bara1500 hedge1549 hema1552 impound1562 strain1566 chamber1568 to lock up1568 coop1570 incarcerate1575 cage1577 mew1581 kennel1582 coop1583 encagea1586 pound1589 imprisonc1595 encloister1596 button1598 immure1598 seclude1598 uplock1600 stow1602 confine1603 jail1604 hearse1608 bail1609 hasp1620 cub1621 secure1621 incarcera1653 fasten1658 to keep up1673 nun1753 mope1765 quarantine1804 peg1824 penfold1851 encoop1867 oubliette1884 jigger1887 corral1890 maroon1904 to bang up1950 to lock down1971 1950 P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 9 Banged up,..‘locked up’ or ‘locked in a cell’. 1966 New Society 31 Mar. 22/2 Some examples of cant words and phrases peculiar to prison inmates and ex-inmates usually familiar only to a narrow section of the community;..getting banged up in a peter (being locked in a prison cell). 1978 Drive Jan. 83/1 In one remand prison..the more disturbed men have to stay ‘banged up’ in their cells for 20 hours a day because there aren't enough warders to cope with them. 1985 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 4th Ser. Episode 4. 228/1 [They] had a bit of a ruck last weekend and they're all banged up on remand! 1990 Daily Mirror 3 Feb. 7 A bloody gorilla looks like Marilyn Monroe when you've been banged up for 15 years. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Aug. 13 At home, jockeys..are banged up in a dormitory above the weighing room for 24 hours before a race. bang up slang. extracted from bang-upadj.adv.n. A. adj. Quite up to the mark, stylish, in the pink of fashion. See also quot. 1811. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] in (also into) request?1574 bonfacion1584 fashional?1607 of request1613 fashionablea1627 à la mode1642 all the mode1651 modish1661 in mode1664 timeish1676 of vogue1678 voguea1695 mody1701 alamodic1753 much the mode1767 tonish1778 go1784 stylish1800 bang-up1810 tippy1810 varmint1823 up to the knocker1844 gyvera1866 OK1869 fly1879 swagger1879 doggy1885 faddy1885 fantoosh1920 voguish1927 voguey1928 à la page1930 go1937 hard1938 hip1939 down1952 swinging1958 a-go-go1960 way-in1960 yé-yé1960 trendy1962 with-it1962 go-go1963 happening1965 mod1965 funky1967 together1968 fash1977 cred1987 1810 C. I. M. Dibdin Bang Up! 6 ‘Bang-up’ seems the watchword to be, From one tip-top driver to t'other. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Bang Up, (Whip) quite the thing, hellish fine... A bang-up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swell's rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 122 Dance a bang up theatrical cotillion. 1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxviii. 253 Thus banged-up, sweeten'd, and clean shav'd. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton vii. 43 His spotted neckcloth knotted in bang-up mode. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. viii. 239 A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 28 This cloth is bang-up. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vii. 118 The salaries are bang-up nowadays. 1938 I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure iv. 39 There'd be a bang-up dinner, then a drive to some place outside the city where they could dance. B. adv. bang up = quite close up (to), right up (to). In modern use, frequently in attributive phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] > exactly like a tansy1619 bang up1819 that's the stuff (to give them or to give the troops)1923 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 154 A person, whose dress..is in the first style of perfection, is declared to be bang up to the mark. A man who has behaved with extraordinary spirit..is also said to have come bang up to the mark. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. i. 10 Smart and sharp, bang up to the day. 1907 G. B. Shaw How he Lied in Wks. (1930) XI. 192 Do..you propose that we should walk right bang up to Teddy and tell him we're going away together? 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 260 Drive bang up against Trinity College gates. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 92/5 Bang-up-to-date neutron know-how. 1963 Listener 21 Feb. 353/2 They had a bang-up-to-the-minute subject in Mr. Harold Wilson's election to the Labour Party leadership. C. n. a. A man of fashion; a dandy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Pref. We trust..that the whole tribe of second-rate Bang ups will feel grateful [etc.]. 1824 Examiner 613/1 Our Corinthians, Roués and Bang-ups. 1882 Punch 22 Apr. 185/1 The Trio turned into the Arcade and saw a number of gay sparks and fair ones promenading... These then are the dandies, the fops, the goes, and the bang-ups, these the Corinthians of to-day. b. A heavy overcoat (see quot. 1903). U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of pee1483 shuba1598 surtout1686 wrap-rascal1716 pea-jacket1717 box coat1718 toggy1742 jockey-coata1745 redingote1770 Polonese coat1774 pea coat1790 spencer1795 grego1809 benjamin1810 bang-up1835 pilot jacket1839 pilot coat1840 Petersham1842 taglioni1843 Chesterfield1852 siphonia1853 raglan1857 Inverness overcoat1865 immensikoff1870 Ulster1876 ulsterette1881 coat1889 polonaise1890 covert coata1893 benny1903 macfarlane1920 1810 Sporting Mag. Dec. 127/1 One article was..a bang-up great coat.] 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 298 Dames in bang-ups, Shawls swath'd round men. 1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 13 Jan. A gentleman dressed in a dark coloured fashionable bang-up. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxi A green coat..over which he wore..a white ‘bang-up’, as it was called. a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 396 His old grey frieze bang-up. 1853 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 11 June (De Vere) He was attired in an old bang-up, black vest, grey pants, and straw hat. 1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 36 Bang-up, an old word for a heavy overcoat, still surviving in some parts of the Union. < as lemmas |
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