Meaning of Alderman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.
2. An English surname originating as an occupation.
3. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
   UK, historical, obsolete, slang
4. A long pipe for smoking.
5. A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.
   US, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.”

“Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.”

“In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.”

“He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. […] And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.”

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