Lock-up House, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Lock up house, a spunging house, a public-house kept by sheriff's officers, to which they convey the persons they have arrested, where they practise every species of imposition and extortion, with impunity; also houses kept by agents or crimps, who inlist, or rather trepan men to serve the East India or African company as soldiers.
Lock-ups, subs. (Harrow School).—Detention
in study.
Loco-foco, subs. (American).—1.
A self-lighting match or cigar.
2. (American).—A nickname of the Democratic party (1834-5). [At a meeting held in Tammany Hall the chairman left his seat and the lights were suddenly extinguished with a view to breaking up the meeting. Thereupon a section of the audience relighted the lights by means of their loco-focos and continued the meeting]. Also as adj. = Democratic; belonging to the loco-foco party.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xvi. p. 162. Here's full particulars of the patriotic loco-foco movement yesterday, in which the Whigs was so chawed up.
1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 98. The driver was a stubborn loco-foco.
Locomote, verb. (American).—To
walk.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, 83. He throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote.
Locomotive, subs. (common).—1.
A mixed hot drink: of Burgundy,
curaçoa, yolks, honey, and cloves.
2. in pl. (common).—The legs. For synonyms see Pins.
1843. W. T. Moncrieff, The Scamps of London, i. 1. Char. Will you listen to me, sir? Bob. Will I? To be sure I will. I will stop my locomotives directly. So now you may set your's agoing as soon as you like.
1870. Sheffield Times, Mar. Having regained his freedom he again made good use of his locomotives.
Locomotive tailor, subs. (tailors').—A
tramping workman.
Locust, subs. (thieves').—1. Laudanum.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., iii. 397. Some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it.
2. (American thieves').—A truncheon.
1882. M'Cabe, New York, xxiii. 383. 'Give them the locusts, men,' came in sharp ringing tones from the captain.
Verb. (thieves').—See quot.
1868. Temple Bar, xxiv. 539. Locusting is putting a chap to sleep with chloroform and bellowing is putting his light out.
Lodger, subs. (prison).—1. A convict
waiting for his discharge.
1889. Answers, 25 May, p. 412. We were delicately termed lodgers, not prisoners, by the authorities.
2. (common).—A person of no account: e.g. 'only a lodger.' Cf. Hog.
Lodging-slum, subs. phr. (thieves').—Hiring
furnished lodgings and
robbing them of all portable articles
of value.—Grose (1823).
Log, subs. (public school).—The
last boy of his 'form' or 'house.'
Loge, subs. (old).—See quots. For
synonyms see Turnip.
