comshaw
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A bribe or gratuity for a service or for arranging a deal; squeeze.
— I have understood that the parents frequently receive handsome comshaws for their daughter, but never give anything with them ; they cannot therefore be charged with the meanness of marrying for money: at least the men are free from the charge and the women don't appear to have so much as a negative in the business.
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The practice of pilfering or bartering for surplus items.
— The practice was so common it was no longer considered stealing. It was comshaw. That kind of thinking made the Iran/Contra arms scandal and Watergate okay at the time. It's comshaw when you do it, but it's stealing when you get caught; it's politics when you do it, but it's illegal when you're found out.
动词 v.
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To acquire without officially requisitioning; to pilfer or barter for surplus items.
— Chips in Las Vegas are as negotiable as green money. You can take them into any club and cash them in for money, for $5 or $10 or whatever it is. So all you've got to do is put a chip in the end of your fingers, turn your hand down like you're trying to touch your wrist, and you can comshaw — or steal — comshaw is a much better word — a $25 chip from a table.
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词源 1
From Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thanks”).
词源 2
From Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thanks”).
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