Girl-show, subs. phr. (common).—A ballet, a burlesque, a leg-piece (q.v.).
Girl Street. In Hair Court, Girl Street, subs. phr. (common).—Generic for fornication. Also the female pudendum.
Girl-trap, subs. phr. (common).—A seducer; a mutton-monger (q.v.).
Git! (or You Git!), intj. (American).—Be off with you! An injunction to immediate departure; walker! (q.v.). Sometimes a contraction of get out! Also get out and dust!
1851. Seaworthy, Bertie, p. 78. Thrue as the tin commandhers! Git aout!
To have no git up and git, phr. (American).—To be weak, vain, mean, or slow—generally deprecatory.
Give, verb. (vulgar).—1. To lead to; to conduct; to open upon: e.g., ‘The door gave upon the street.’ Cf. the idiomatic use, in French, of donner.
2. (American).—An all-round auxiliary to active verbs: e.g., to give on praying = to excel at prayer; to give on the make = to be clever at making money, etc.
To give it to, verb. phr. (old).—1. To rob; to defraud.—Grose.
2. (common).—To scold; to thrash. Also to give what for; to give it hot; to give something for oneself; to give one in the eye, etc. [[150]]Fr., aller en donner. For synonyms, see Wig and Tan respectively.