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Bread and butter" At boarding school, at morning break, bread & butter was laid out to eat. This was referred to as 'Chuck'. A prefect would often punish a junior by asking him to 'get chuck' for him at break. Boarding schools are considered to be more of a breading ground for slang than "regular" schools. The 24hr a day contact is a ripe setting for generating them.
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.
School prefect. Probably mutated rhyming slang. From deefer = defect = prefect.
Material ejected from the mouth consisting of a mixture of saliva and mucus, that contains a high proportion of mucus. In other words, Spit with a fair amount of snot in it. e.g. "I did a meaty on that prefect".
(1) car - "that's a nice hoopty you're driving!". (2) broken down and not working well "Man this car is hoopty!", "She sure is hoopty" (ed: is it me or does this bear a suspicious resemblance to the word "hoopy" used by Ford Prefect in the four part trilogy "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... i.e. "He's a hoopy frood, he sure knows where his towel is!!")
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?
Not sure about this one, but the submission reads as follows: A generally dirty person from the country or the south.Also used to describe extremely stupid people. Used as "That girl needs to take a bath. What a freaking hoopie!". Bill said he believes the term originated, when the bottom fell out of, the barrel making trade. The displaced barrel makers, of the Tennessee Valley area, went to other areas for work. In those places they were known as hoopies. (ed: seems reasonable - but makes me wonder where Douglas Adams got hold of it when he called Ford Prefect a 'hoopie frood')
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A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.
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The office or jurisdiction of a prefect.
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Of or pertaining to a prefect.
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In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.
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A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
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To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
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A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
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The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.
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A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.
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