104 definitions by fizzle

1. n. wealth, prosperity, money, power, influence, etc. See high cotton.
2. n. an area characterized by such. (The rich part of town.)

n. a really good guitar player. See axe.

adj. short for grotesque

It could be a reference to male pride, but in order to explain Sonny's usage of the phrase in The Godfather, it goes a little deeper. The word dick can also mean "nothing", and in Sonny's case I think "hand" has a double meaning. He means it literally and figuratively. If it's a reference to male pride, it's in the sense of the phrase "wearing only a smile", meaning that Michael would come out of the bathroom with nothing but his pride. More literally, Sonny wanted Michael to actually have the gun in his hand when he exited the men's room.

n. trucker term for the person with whom a law enforcement officer is currently occupied. When the cop has a customer, he can't come after you.

n. a vehicle (or vehicles) exceeding the speed limit in the hammer lane, typically after a trucker has moved out of that vehicle's way. The expectation is that smokey bears will go after the vehicle moving fastest, thus keeping them occupied with a customer when you go by. Sometimes truckers try to create this situation on purpose by blocking all the lanes of traffic for a period of time to make people behind them mad enough to speed. see cop cleaner

an old and outdated way of thinking, characterized by complacency and self-satisfaction.