Run for the money, TO HAVE A, to have a start given in with a bet. As 20 to 1 against Doncaster, with a RUN given. See [P.P.] To have a RUN FOR ONE’S MONEY is also to have a good determined struggle for anything.
Run-in, to lock up in the station-house. The police are very fond of threatening to RUN-IN any person to whom they may take exception, and, as recent revelations have shown, are by no means averse from putting their threats into execution.
Running patterer, a street seller who runs or moves briskly along, calling aloud his wares.
Running stationer, a hawker of books, ballads, dying speeches, and newspapers. Persons of this class formerly used to run with newspapers, blowing a horn, when they were sometimes termed FLYING STATIONERS. Nowadays, in the event of any political or social disturbance, the miserable relics of these peripatetic newsmen bawl the heads of the telegram or information in quiet London thoroughfares, to the disturbance of the residents. The race is very nearly extinct, the evening-paper boys having run them to earth.
Rush, to come upon suddenly, generally for the purpose of borrowing. To “give a man the RUSH,” is to spunge upon him all day, and then borrow money at the finish, or pursue some such similar mode of procedure.
Rush, “doing it on the RUSH,” running away, or making off.
Rust, “to nab the RUST,” to take offence. Rusty, cross, ill-tempered, morose; not able to go through life like a person of easy and “polished” manners.
Rustication, the sending of an offender from the University for one term or more, thus hindering his qualifying for a degree.
Rusty guts, a blunt, rough, old fellow. Corruption of RUSTICUS.
Rye. Gipsy term for a young man. In the same parlance “rawnie” is a young woman.