ajax

1. PolariNearby, over there

   [O]oh[,] will just vada that filiomi ajax[.]

   2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957, page 152

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   In the bar we would stand with our sisters, varda (look at) the bona cartes (male genitals) on the butch homme (man, pronounced o-me) ajax (nearby), who, if we fluttered our ogle riahs (eye lashes) at him sweetly, might just troll over to offer a light for the unlit vogue (cigarette) clenched between out teeth. [The explanations in round brackets are by Peter Burton]

   1985, Peter Burton, Parallel Lives, page 38

   Oh, vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in[.]

   2004, Paul Baker, Fanatabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, page 1

1. archaichistoricalno pluralA toilet.

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   I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13

1. no pluralslangcard gamesAn ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

1. Greekhuman sciencesEither of two heroes of the Trojan War.

   In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...

   1995, David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11

2. rareA male given name.
3. A town in Ontario, Canada.

   In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).

   1994, Mike Filey, Toronto Sketches 3: The Way We Were, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 135

alternative AJAX

1. computingA group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.

   An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…

   2005, Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

1. A ghost town in Utah.

   Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.

   1910, Forth, page 829

2. An unincorporated community in South Dakota.

   Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.

   2000, Construction Into the Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin Expansion Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 20

3. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

   THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...

   2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN

4. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
5. ball gamesThe Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
6. Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.

1. alternativecomputingAlternative form of Ajax.