Globe-rangers, subs. (nautical).—The Royal Marines.
Globe-trotter, subs. (colloquial).—A traveller; primarily one who races
from place to place, with the object of covering ground or making a
record. Fr.: un pacquelineur.
1886. Graphic, 7 Aug., 147/1. Your mere idle gaping globetrotter
will spin endless pages of unobservant twaddle, and will record his
tedious wanderings with most painful minuteness.
1888. Academy, 17 Mar. The inevitable steamboat, the world, and the
omnivorous globe-trotter.
1889. Echo, 9 Feb. The British globe-trotter knows Japan as he
knows England, and English books about Japan are turned out by the
ton.
1890. Pall Mall Gaz., 27 Jan., p. 5, c. 2. This popular definition
of a quick-mover has now become effete. Miss Bly is a
globe-galloper or she is nothing.
Globe-trotting, subs. (colloquial).—Travelling after the manner of
globe-trotters (q.v.).
1888. Academy, 22 Sept. In fact, globe-trotting, as the Americans
somewhat irreverently term it, is now frequently undertaken as a
mere holiday trip.
Glope, verb. (Winchester College).—To spit. (Obsolete).
Glorious, adj. (common).—Excited with drink; ‘in one’s altitudes’;
boozed. For synonyms, see drinks and screwed.
1791. Burns, Tam o’ Shanter. Kings may be blessed, but Tam was
glorious, O’er a’ the ills of life victorious.
1853. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, ch. xviii., p. 252. I knew nothing
of the vow, or indeed of the tipsy frolic which was the occasion of
it; I was taken up glorious, as the phrase is, by my servants, and
put to bed.
1891. Licensed Vict. Gaz., 9 Feb. But as they all began to get
glorious, personalities became more frequent and very much
stronger.
Glorious Sinner, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A dinner.
Glory, subs. (common).—The after life; kingdom come (q.v.). Usually,
the coming glory.
1841. Punch, 17 July, p. 2. Clara pines in secret—Hops the twig,
and goes to glory in white muslin.
In one’s glory, adv. phr. (colloquial).—In the full flush of vanity,
pride, taste, notion, or idiosyncracy.
Gloves, to go for the gloves, verb. phr. (racing).—To bet recklessly;
to bet against a horse without having the wherewithal to pay if one
loses—the last resource of the plunging turfite. The term is derived
from the well-known habit of ladies to bet in pairs of gloves,
expecting to be paid if they win, but not to be called upon to pay if
they lose.
1877. Hawley Smart, Play or Pay, ch. xi. One of the boldest
plungers of the day, who had begun badly, was going for the gloves
upon this match.
1886. Badminton Library, ‘Racing,’ p. 255. Hardly worth mentioning
are the backers who come in for a hit-or-miss dash at the ring—to
go for the gloves, as it is called in ring parlance.
1891. Licensed Vict. Gaz., 3 Apr. Although we frequently read in
stories of the hero backing the right horse at a long price, and so
getting out of sundry monetary difficulties, we rarely find the
idea realised in practice. Many a bookmaker has gone for the
gloves.
Glow, adj. (tailors’).—Ashamed.