See busted valise on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "busted valises", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "busted valise (plural busted valises)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1962 July 26, Edward Kirkman, Henry Lee, “DA Fears Gang's X Will Mark The Spot For Mr. X's Rubout”, in Daily News, New York, page 4:", "text": "The sources described the natty Pomeranz as a fast talker but \"a phony\" and \"a real busted valise\" whose checks had a strong elastic snap to them.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1964 October 24, Gilbert Rogin, “At the Sea-Vue Arms”, in New Yorker, New York, page 63:", "text": "\"Two bucks! He asks me for two bucks! Sonny, I'm a busted valise.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who has run out of money" ], "id": "en-busted_valise-en-noun-Rw5xGEK7", "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A person who has run out of money" ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "44 56", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "28 72", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "17 83", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "34 66", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1978 January 4, Pete Hamill, “Dear Ed: Take the Bronx and Staten Island, Too”, in Daily News, New York, page 4:", "text": "They appear to be a vast improvement over the busted valises who were hired for so many jobs by Abe Beame.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who has lost power or abilities; a has-been" ], "id": "en-busted_valise-en-noun-H2KXadU-", "links": [ [ "has-been", "has-been" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A person who has lost power or abilities; a has-been" ], "related": [ { "_dis1": "43 57", "word": "broken-down valise" } ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ] } ], "word": "busted valise" }
{ "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:People" ], "forms": [ { "form": "busted valises", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "busted valise (plural busted valises)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "broken-down valise" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English slang", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1962 July 26, Edward Kirkman, Henry Lee, “DA Fears Gang's X Will Mark The Spot For Mr. X's Rubout”, in Daily News, New York, page 4:", "text": "The sources described the natty Pomeranz as a fast talker but \"a phony\" and \"a real busted valise\" whose checks had a strong elastic snap to them.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1964 October 24, Gilbert Rogin, “At the Sea-Vue Arms”, in New Yorker, New York, page 63:", "text": "\"Two bucks! He asks me for two bucks! Sonny, I'm a busted valise.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who has run out of money" ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A person who has run out of money" ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ] }, { "categories": [ "American English", "English slang", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1978 January 4, Pete Hamill, “Dear Ed: Take the Bronx and Staten Island, Too”, in Daily News, New York, page 4:", "text": "They appear to be a vast improvement over the busted valises who were hired for so many jobs by Abe Beame.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who has lost power or abilities; a has-been" ], "links": [ [ "has-been", "has-been" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang) A person who has lost power or abilities; a has-been" ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ] } ], "word": "busted valise" }
Download raw JSONL data for busted valise meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.