| 单词 | to ball the jack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ball the jack 9. transitive. U.S. slang. to ball the jack: to behave recklessly or wildly; (also) to travel fast, to hurry. [Origin uncertain; first recorded as the name of a popular dance (see quot. 1913), although it is unclear whether the expression was originally coined in this sense; perhaps compare highball v., and also the following apparently isolated earlier use of to ball it off in sense ‘to travel at a fast rate’: c1847 J. T. Downey Cruise of Portsmouth (1963) 36 In the course of 24 hours we got a fair wind and were soon balling it off at the rate of 12 knots. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] lakeOE flyOE runOE scour13.. jace1393 hie1398 spina1400 fleetc1400 glentc1400 stripc1400 suea1450 carryc1450 speed1488 scud1532 streek1598 winga1616 to clip it1616 hackney1617 swifta1618 whirryc1630 dust1673 whew1684 race1702 stroke1735 cut1797 spank1807 skid1815 speela1818 crack1824 skimmer1824 slap1827 clip1832 skeet1838 marvel1841 lick1850 travel1850 rush1852 zip1852 sail1876 rabbit1887 move1906 high-tail1908 to ball the jack1914 buzz1914 shift1922 giddap1938 burn1942 hoosh1943 bomb1966 shred1977 1913 J. Burris Ballin' Jack (song) 5 Now that's what I call ‘Ballin' the Jack’.] 1914 in W. C. Handy Blues Treasury 74 A long tall gal makes a preacher ball the jack. c1925 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 41/1 The car certainly did ball the jack. 1941 J. H. Street In my Father's House 268 They think as soon as you die you go balling-the-jack to God. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. iii. 16 He balled the jack and told stories for a couple of hours. 2003 Houston (Texas) Press (Nexis) 18 Sept. He'll rock about truck-stop queens and long black highways and badasses balling that jack to nowhere. < as lemmas |
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