BOUNCER
NOUNS, PERSON
1631 • HECTOR a bouncer, esp. of a brothel; a swashbuckler; a braggart, a blusterer, a bully, a thug
1884 • BIG DOG a bouncer, a large, tough man employed to keep order in a premises → US sl.
1943 • HEAVE a bouncer or chucker-out → Aust. sl.
1950 • HEELER a bouncer, esp. in shady establishments → US criminals’ sl.
1953 • GENDARME a bouncer, a large, tough man employed to keep order in a club → Aust. sl.
1988 • HEAVIES bouncers, strong-arm men; men with authority employed to keep the peace, such as police, or to use violence if necessary, such as a criminal’s hench-men → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1992 • HALF-OUNCER a bouncer or security person at a nightclub, dance-hall, or similar place → UK rhyming sl. for ‘bouncer’
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