English Dictionary

alderman

noun

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town. / (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence. / A long pipe for smoking. / (US, slang) A potbelly, paunch.

The alderman attended the city council meeting.

意味（1）

A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

意味（2）

(UK, historical, obsolete slang) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

意味（3）

A long pipe for smoking.

In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.

意味（4）

(US, slang) A potbelly, paunch.

He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. … And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.