Why does the word carpet mean three in english slang as in a prison sentence of either three years or three months or even a three pound bet.
Carpet slang 300.
Stand in awe 12.
The twist number is one of the most important components of a carpet s durability.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
Contributed by danny on 21 apr 2000.
Ratings for carpet this slang has been rated.
Noun vaginal pubic hair.
In carpeting terms twist can refer to either a style of carpet that is highly twisted a frieze as described above or to the twist number of a carpet.
Oxford old currency given.
Bottle of glue 9.
See the carpet matches the drapes.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
A carpet can burst in the dryer when it is stretched to tight or may be caused by forklift damage.
Q from john abbeydale.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
The thick knotted mass of pubic hair just north of the vagina.
Bag of sand 3.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence based on the following.
Mussels a plenty 6.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.
That carpet bag was cockney rhyming slang for a drag which was.
The first recorded use of carpet for a prison sentence comes from the book the mark of the broad arrow by no 77 published in 1903.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.
When a male shoves his face into a woman s crotch and eats the hairs and cleans the carpet.
A to find the origins of this we have to delve into criminals and prison slang.
A carpet can burst in the dryer when it is stretched to tight or may be caused by forklift damage.
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Taxi driver same as jacks alive 11.
Macaroni given cause i ve no idea why it s 20 8.
This has confusing and convoluted origins from as early as the late 1800s.