Sholl, to bonnet one, or crush a person’s hat over his eyes.—North.
Shool, to saunter idly, to become a vagabond, to beg rather than work.—Smollett’s Roderick Random, vol. i., p. 262.
Shool, Jews’ term for their synagogue.
Shoot the cat, to vomit. From a story of a man being sick in the back yard, and suffocating a cat and all her kittens.
Shoot the moon, to remove furniture from a house in the night without paying the landlord.
Shop. In racing slang, to secure first, second, or third position in a race, is to get a SHOP. This is also known as a place, and as a situation. See [PLACE].
Shop, a house. “How are they all at your SHOP?” is a common question among small tradesmen.
Shop, the House of Commons. The only instance we have met with of the use of this word in literature occurs in Mr. Trollope’s Framley Parsonage:—
“‘If we are merely to do as we are bid, and have no voice of our own, I don’t see what’s the good of our going to the SHOP at all,’ said Mr. Sowerby.”