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1871. Times, Dec. Both . . . fled to New York to save doing time on the treadmill.
1884. Cornhill Mag., June, p. 614. He has repeatedly done time for drunks and disorderlies, and for assaults upon the police.
1888. Referee, 15 April, 3, 1. The robbers-in-chief, who had done time before, were sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
To do to death, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To repeat ad nauseam.
To do to tie to, verb. phr. (American).—To be fit to associate with; to be trustworthy.
To do up, verb. phr. (common).—To use up; finish; or quiet. Done up = tired out; ruined; 'sold up.' For synonyms, see Floored.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller, in wks. v., 170. I was cleane spent and done, there was no hope of me.
1667. Dryden, Ann. Mir., st. 70. Not so the Holland fleet, who, tired and done, Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. xxxiv. 'How did he get back from India?' 'Why, how should I know? The house there was done up, and that gave us a shake at Middleburgh.'
1831. Disraeli, The Young Duke, bk. iv., ch. xii., p. 245 (ed. 1866), 'The Universe' and 'The New World' announced that the young duke was done up.
1851-61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. iii., p. 264. A man's done up at fifty, and seldom lives long after, if he has to keep on at coal-portering.
1870. L. Oliphant, Piccadilly, pt. iii.; p. 130. I am awfully done, said Spiffy. I never went to bed at all last night.
[For the rest, do, like chuck and cop, is a verb-of-all-work, and is used in every possible and impossible connection. Thus, to do reason and to do right = to honour a toast; to do a bit of stiff = to draw a bill; to do a chuck = to eject, or to go away; to do a rub-up = to masturbate; to do a sip (back slang) = to make water; to do a cat = to vomit; to do a hall or a theatre = to visit a music hall or a playhouse; to do a fluff (theatrical) = to forget one's part; to do a pitch (showman's or street artists') = to go through a performance; to do a mouch or a mike = to go on the prowl; to do a grouse = to go questing for women; to do a doss = to go to sleep; to do a cadge = to go begging; to do a tumble or a spread = to lie down to a man; to do a perpendicular or knee-trembler = to copulate standing; to do a scrap = to engage in combat; to do a rural = to 'rear' by the wayside; to do a dive in the dark = to copulate; etc.
Doash, subs. (Old Cant).—A cloak.
For synonyms, see Capella.
Dobbin, subs. (old).—Ribbon.
Dobbin Rig = stealing ribbon.
Dock, subs. (printers').—1. The
weekly work bill or pole (q.v.).
2. (popular).—The hospital.
Verb (old).—1. To deflower; hence, by implication, to possess; [Gypsy d[=u]kker, to ravish]. Feminine analogues are to have done the trick; to have had it; to have done it at last; to be cracked in the ring; to have broken her tea-cup; to have had it there; to have gone star-*gazing on her back; to have given her pussy a taste of cream; to have let the pony over the dyke (Scots'); to have broken her knees or her leg; to have sprained her ankle. Fr., avoir vu le loup; laisser aller le chat au fromage; and avoir vu la lune; whilst l'avoir encore and avoir encore l'avoine is said of maids. Sp., desvirgar = to deflower: Docked = possessed.
