send to dorse
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
send to dorse (third-person singular simple present sends to dorse, present participle sending to dorse, simple past and past participle sent to dorse)
- (transitive, idiomatic, obsolete, slang) To throw (a person) onto their back; to knock out.
- a. 1823, Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
- Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
- a. 1823, Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary