词汇 | carpet |
释义 | carpet noun 1 a three month period of imprisonment. A shortening of 'carpet bag' rhyming slang for 'drag' an obsolete term for 'a three month sentence'; this origin is now mainly forgotten; therefore it has since been reasoned that 'carpet' is so-called because it easy to do UK, 1903. 2 a three year sentence of imprisonment UK, 1956. 3 in betting, odds of 3–1 UK, 1967. 4 a sum of £3 UK, 1954. 5 three hundred pounds, £300. Ticket-touting slang. Also spelled 'carpits' UK, 2002. 6 an artificial grass playing surface US, 1978.► clean the carpet(of a female) to masturbate US, 2001.► matching carpet and drapes; carpet and drapes that matchapplied to a person, usually a woman, whose hair is neither bleached nor dyed. A jocular suggestion that the hair on the head is of the same natural shade as the pubic hair US, 1999
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