What is the meaning of QUEUE. Phrases containing QUEUE
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Getting into a queue at the front instead of at the back, primarily because you were older than the rest of the people in the queue and/or you knew the prefect at the front was called 'swicking the queue' prompting cries of "Hey min, get back ye swick!", ' from brave people, or chanting 'swicker' if you weren't going to get away with it.
To line up in an orderly fashion
Telling someone to go all the way to the front of a queue (which the other people in the queue generally won't allow).
When I'm standing patiently in the checkout queue at Tesco I like to chivvy along the old ladies in front of me. If only they would stop fannying around and hurry up!
Letting a person into a queue behind you.
When I'm standing patiently in the checkout queue at Tesco I like to chivvy along the old ladies in front of me. If only they would stop fannying around and hurry up!
Basically it meant a minature riot. Usual location for these was in school corridors. Situation arose when crownds of children tried to pass each other when there too little room to do so easily. Usual times for a rammy to occur was between classes and occasionally when people tried to skip the lunch queue.
A column of people. See also Wait in a queue
To steal or thieve something. Used as "Hey! Keep a lookout I'm going to chore that!!", past tense would be "I chored that". (1) To steal or nick - "Did you chore those sweets from the shop?" You could use this in the same way as 'nick', so you can 'chore off with something', and our dinner lady used to shout at us for 'choring in' the dinner queue (queue-jumping) – 'How youse lads will ye's stop chorin' in man!. (2) A person, usually male. Can be used in a varity of ways eg "Alright chore!", "Oi! Chore!" Similar word for this meaning is "charva" or "charver"(pronounced with an 'a', not 'er' at the end. (ed: chava at least seems to have spread further!)
Pot of glue is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Jew. Pot of glue is London Cockney rhyming slang for a queue.
Noun. 1. A woman, usually referring to an elderly woman and often reinforced with the word old. E.g."I suggest you don't go to the post office on a Thursday, that's when all the old biddies collect their pension money and the queues are terrible." 2. A head louse, and occ. any skin/hair parasite such as a flea. Usually in the plural, as biddies. E.g."First day at school and my youngest came home with a head full of biddies."Adj. Small.
Telling someone to go all the way to the back of the queue. c.f. backage, frontage chinese backage.
To 'barge', i.e. to deliberately run into someone. To 'dunsh into somebody' was to 'barge into' them. You could 'dunsh in' the dinner queue, which was the same as 'chorin in'. Contributor said he only found out that 'dunsh' wasn't standard English when he reached his 20's!
n, v, pron. “cue” line. This doesn’t really help the definition at all, as a line could be any number of things. A pencil line? A railway line? A line of Charlie? A line dancer? As a result of this potentially dangerous confusion, a word was developed by some British word-scientists to separate this particular line from all the others. A queue is a line of people. To queue is to be one of those queuing in the queue. The word means “tail” in French, and is used in the same context. Americans do in fact use the word, but only in the “you’re third in the queue” type telephone call waiting systems.
Not In My Queue
Stand in line. See also Queue
n a school-child who, having done particularly well academically or on the sports field, is allowed to perform such glorious tasks as making sure everyone behaves properly in the lunch queue, tidying up after school events and showing new pupils around at the weekends. As you may have guessed, I was never a prefect. Bitter? Me?
Letting a person into a queue ahead of you.
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The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
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A cue, or queue.
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A line of persons waiting anywhere.
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A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
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To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
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