What is the meaning of CARPET. Phrases containing CARPET
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three pounds (£3) or three hundred pounds (£300), or sometimes thirty pounds (£30). This has confusing and convoluted origins, from as early as the late 1800s: It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence, based on the following: that 'carpet bag' was cockney rhyming slang for a 'drag', which was generally used to describe a three month sentence; also that in the prison workshops it supposedly took ninety days to produce a certain regulation-size piece of carpet; and there is also a belief that prisoners used to be awarded the luxury of a piece of carpet for their cell after three year's incarceration. The term has since the early 1900s been used by bookmakers and horse-racing, where carpet refers to odds of three-to-one, and in car dealing, where it refers to an amount of £300.
Carpet is betting slang for odds of /. Carpet is slang for the female pubic area.
crack smokers searching the floor for crack
Talk to the carpet is American slang for to vomit
n 1. A person who performs cunnilingus. 2. A lesbian. carpet munching v: Performing cunnilingus.
Noun. 1. £3, £30, or £300. 2. A 3 month prison sentence. [Prison use] 3. In betting, 3/1. A double carpet being 33/1.
Laugh at the carpet is American slang for to vomit.
 (spew) v., To vomit or throw up “Sorry I spewed on your carpet.†Also: hurl   [Etym., 80’s youth culture, e.g. Wayne’s World]
your curtains don't even match your carpet honey
When a trashy woman (whose hair is dyed) is bashing, you say, as a put down "your curtains dont even match your carpet honey".
Carpet bag is London Cockney rhyming slang for three−month prison sentence (drag).
Lesbian From supposed similarity between texture of carpet and a womans pubic hair.
Commoner version of dancing on the carpet
Double carpet is betting slang for odds of /.
 Cotton or woollen cloth used to cover floors or to protect carpets.
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n.
Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general.
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A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
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A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
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Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
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A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.
n.
Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.
v. t.
To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
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A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
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The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
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The act of covering with carpets.
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To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
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A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
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Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.
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Without a carpet.
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A Turcoman carpet.
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