up the pole

Pregnant, usually unplanned, Irish slang, as in "knocked up"

From the great Irish film, THE SNAPPER:
"She's gone and got herself up the pole"

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up the pole

phr. 1 (late 19C+) insane. 2 1920s +) pregnant (cf. UP THE SPOUT).

- Is she up the pole ?
- Better ask Seymour that. (James Joyce:Ulysses,PICADOR,1998, p.23)

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Up a pole

To get a gun.

G, stop cappin before I up a pole on ya goofy ass.

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Up the pole

To pull out the blicky/gun(to arm yourself with your firearm)

Imma be getting head and still ‘up the pole’.

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upped the pole

To pull a gun on someone

Adan was talkin smack I upped the pole on em

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up them poles

To pull out, or raise ones firearms. As either a threat or with the intent to kill.

if they aint got that money, we up them poles

pissing up a pole

a complete waste of time and effort that backfires anyway.
like spitting into the wind, but worse.

see also piss up a rope

If you've been nominated for the same award 4 times and never won, to nominate yourself _again_ is like pissing up a pole.

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