LOAN
ADJECTIVES
– ON THE CRIPPLE AND CRUTCH looking for a loan …1950s rhyming sl. for ‘touch’
– ON THE LUG seeing a loan; ‘on the borrow’ …20C Brit. sl.
– ON THE TOMMY looking for a loan …20C sl.
NOUNS
– BARROWS a loan, esp. of money …1990s W. Indies sl.
– DARBY AND JOAN a loan …1940s Aust. rhyming sl.
– JAWBONE credit; a loan …Bk1896 sl.
– JUICE interest paid to a loan shark …1935 US sl.
– JUICE RACKET usury, loan-sharking, illegal lending …1988 US sl.
– KNOCK-DOWN a loan …1950s Aust. sl.
– LEND a loan …1575 UK
– LENT † the act of lending; loan …a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LIFT a loan …1953 Amer. carnival sl.
– MACE a sham loan-office …1879 Brit. sl.
– RUB a loan …1914 naval sl.
– TAP a loan, an act of requesting a loan …1990s sl.
– WIND-RAISING obtaining a loan …L18 sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
– FANG ARTIST one who is particularly adept at obtaining loans …1970s Aust. sl.
– GIVER-UP one who is asked for a loan …Bk1992 criminals’ sl.
– SCADGER a term of abuse; a mean, contemptible person; someone who always wants a loan …1866 sl.
– SHYLOCK a person who illegally loans money at very high interest rates and often has violent collection procedures …M19 US sl.
VERBS
– BRACE to ask for money or other support, esp. in a demanding way; to get credit by swagger; to request a loan; to beg …1889 Amer. dial.
– BREAK OUT A FLAG to request a loan from a friend in the Navy … …World War II Amer. sl.
– FANG to demand money; to cadge, to beg for a loan …1910s Aust. sl.
– POTLATCH to give or loan …1938 Amer. dial.
– PUT THE BITE ON to ask for a loan, to borrow money from someone; also, to threaten, to blackmail, to extort money from …1933 sl., orig. US
– PUT THE FANGS IN to ask for a loan of money …1919 Aust. sl.
– PUT THE HARD WORD ON to ask insistently for a favour or for a loan …1913 Aust. & NZ colloq.
– RAISE THE BREEZES to obtain money; to obtain a loan …L18 sl.
– TAP FOR to beg for, to accost someone for something, to ask for a loan, whether of money or fig …L19 sl.
– TAP UP to beg for, to accost someone for something, to ask for a loan, whether of money or fig …L19 sl.
– WHISTLE UP A BREEZE to obtain money; to obtain a loan …L18 sl.
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