SKY PARLOUR. The garret, or upper story. SLABBERING BIB. A parson or lawyer's band. SLAG. A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an affront. SLAM. A trick; also a game at whist lost without scoring one. To slam to a door; to shut it with violence. SLAMKIN. A female sloven, one whose clothes seem hung on with a pitch-fork, a careless trapes. SLANG. A fetter. Double slanged; double ironed. Now double slanged into the cells for a crop he is knocked down; he is double ironed in the condemned cells, and ordered to be hanged. SLANG. Cant language. SLAP-BANG SHOP. A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READY SLAP-BANG, i.e. immediately. This is a common appellation for a night cellar frequented by thieves, and sometimes for a stage coach or caravan. SLAPDASH. Immediately, instantly, suddenly. SLASHER. A bullying, riotous fellow. IRISH. SLAT. Half a crown. CANT. SLATE. A sheet. CANT. SLATER'S PAN. The gaol at Kingston in Jamaica: Slater is the deputy Provost-marshal. SLATTERN. A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress. SLEEPING PARTNER. A partner in a trade, or shop, who lends his name and money, for which he receives a share of the profit, without doing any part of the business. SLEEPY. Much worn: the cloth of your coat must be extremely sleepy, for it has not had a nap this long time. SLEEVELESS ERRAND. A fool's errand, in search of what it is impossible to find. SLICE. To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because a slice off a cut loaf is not missed. SLIPGIBBET. See SCAPEGALLOWS. SLIPPERY CHAP. One on whom there can be no dependance, a shuffling fellow. SLIPSLOPS. Tea, water-gruel, or any innocent beverage taken medicinally. SLIPSLOPPING. Misnaming and misapplying any hard word; from the character of Mrs. Slipslop, in Fielding's Joseph Andrews. SLOP. Tea. How the blowens lush the slop. How the wenches drink tea! SLOPS. Wearing apparel and bedding used by seamen. SLOP SELLER. A dealer in those articles, who keeps a slop shop. SLOUCH. A stooping gait, a negligent slovenly fellow. To slouch; to hang down one's head. A slouched hat: a hat whose brims are let down. SLUBBER DE GULLION. A dirty nasty fellow. SLUG. A piece of lead of any shape, to be fired from a blunderbuss. To fire a slug; to drink a dram. SLUG-A-BED. A drone, one that cannot rise in the morning. SLUICE YOUR GOB. Take a hearty drink. SLUR. To slur, is a method of cheating at dice: also to cast a reflection on any one's character, to scandalize. SLUSH. Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled. SLUSH BUCKET. A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food. SLY BOOTS. A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity. SMABBLED, or SNABBLED. Killed in battle.