Meanings
plural posishes
- abbreviationclippingcolloquialoften military slang or sexual slangClipping of position.
My favorite posish is doggystyle.
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He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic "posish" that alarmed me.
"Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."
The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.
At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.
And feeling that it would do no harm to get his views on the Kipper situation, I unfolded the tale. “So you see the posish,” I concluded.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
Origin
Abbreviation of position.
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