HARD-UPS, cigar-end finders, who collect the refuse pieces of smoked
cigars from the gutter, and having dried them, sell them as tobacco to
the very poor.
HARRY, or OLD HARRY (_i.e._ _Old Hairy_?) the Devil; “to play OLD HARRY
with one,” _i.e._, ruin or annoy him.
HARRY-SOPH (ἐρίσοφος, very wise indeed), an undergraduate in his last
year of residence.—_Cambridge._
HASH, a mess, confusion; “a pretty HASH he made of it;” to HASH UP, to
jumble together without order or regularity.
HATCHET, “to throw the HATCHET,” to tell lies.
HAWSE HOLES, the apertures in a ship’s bows through which the cables
pass; “he has crept in through the HAWSE-HOLES,” said of an officer who
has risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman.—_Navy._
HAY BAG, a woman.
HAZY, intoxicated.—_Household Words_, No. 183.
HEAD OR TAIL, “I can’t make HEAD OR TAIL of it,” _i.e._, cannot make it
out.
HEAP, “a HEAP of people,” a crowd; “struck all of a HEAP,” suddenly
astonished.
HEAVY WET, porter or beer,—because the more a man drinks of it, the
heavier he becomes.