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Anus. Used as in being "up to wazoo" in something, i.e. metaphorically deeply involved as in "Up to the wazoo in the drug scene", or literally, as in "The basement had cockroaches up the wazoo." or "The pipe was leaking out the wazoo.". The contributor heard this term in the 1980's in Brooklyn, when I worked for a real estate developer. He thinks it may be contractor slang, but has been around and in general use for a long time. At least back to the turn of the century.
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The Gob pit was the area of the playground that it was unwise to lose a ball down. At the Crypt School in Gloucestershire, it was a basement storage area that was gated off from the playground, it had a staircase running down it. If you were responsible for losing a ball down the Gob Pit it was your job to retrive it. As soon as a ball went down a shout would go out "Gob Pit" you would be lucky to get less than 50 people spitting at you as you collected the ball. Ultimately certain individuals who were able to create the largest "greenies" at a moments notice would be ushered to the front of the gobbing crowd to administer the most revolting of "flobs".
The little paved area, below pavement level, usually surrounded by railings, outside the basement of a posh terraced house. The Contributor writes "My mum and dad also used this one, thirty years before me (I'm 24), and my mum thinks it's short for 'area'. Heard in the words chanted along to a ball-bouncing game. One, two, three, O'Lairey My ball went down the airey'. She has no idea who O'Lairey was or what he had to do with the airey.
a small storage space in the basement or attic
Hangar deck of the aircraft carrier.
Any place where it is easy to locate a sex partner.
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The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
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The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
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all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
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In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
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The basement or cellar.
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Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.
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The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.
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