| inf., amer. |
deceive (The sailor-men patronize the saloon kept by Portuguese Joe and his pretty wife and they put it over the simple dago in a peculiarly sailor-like fashion. They get their drinks and are not willing to pay. One day one of them carried the scheme so far as to get a drink on the nod and then to swallow the contents of the glass, into which he had poured a white powder that he carried with him. Feigning death, he was dragged out of the hotel by Joe, who was alarmed lest the police should appear and a dead drunk be found on the premises.); trick (The sailor-men patronize the saloon kept by Portuguese Joe and his pretty wife and they put it over the simple dago in a peculiarly sailor-like fashion. They get their drinks and are not willing to pay. One day one of them carried the scheme so far as to get a drink on the nod and then to swallow the contents of the glass, into which he had poured a white powder that he carried with him. Feigning death, he was dragged out of the hotel by Joe, who was alarmed lest the police should appear and a dead drunk be found on the premises.) |
