The first recorded use of carpet for a prison sentence comes from the book the mark of the broad arrow by no 77 published in 1903.
Carpet slang 300.
Stand in awe 12.
Contributed by danny on 21 apr 2000.
When a male shoves his face into a woman s crotch and eats the hairs and cleans the carpet.
Why does the word carpet mean three in english slang as in a prison sentence of either three years or three months or even a three pound bet.
Ratings for carpet this slang has been rated.
Carpet is cockney slang for 3.
A carpet can burst in the dryer when it is stretched to tight or may be caused by forklift damage.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.
That carpet bag was cockney rhyming slang for a drag which was.
The twist number is one of the most important components of a carpet s durability.
It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence based on the following.
Oxford old currency given.
See more words with the same meaning.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
A to find the origins of this we have to delve into criminals and prison slang.
See the carpet matches the drapes.
The twist number is the number of times carpet strands have been twisted in a one inch length of fiber.
Mussels a plenty 6.
Taxi driver same as jacks alive 11.
The thick knotted mass of pubic hair just north of the vagina.
This has confusing and convoluted origins from as early as the late 1800s.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
Q from john abbeydale.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
Bottle of glue 9.
Noun vaginal pubic hair.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
A carpet can burst in the dryer when it is stretched to tight or may be caused by forklift damage.
Bag of sand 3.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.