It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence based on the following.
Carpet slang 300.
The thick knotted mass of pubic hair just north of the vagina.
See the carpet matches the drapes.
Ratings for carpet this slang has been rated.
Taxi driver same as jacks alive 11.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
A to find the origins of this we have to delve into criminals and prison slang.
Oxford old currency given.
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The twist number is one of the most important components of a carpet s durability.
Macaroni given cause i ve no idea why it s 20 8.
Contributed by danny on 21 apr 2000.
Carpet is cockney slang for 3.
The twist number is the number of times carpet strands have been twisted in a one inch length of fiber.
Shift location of furniture from time to time.
Bottle of glue 9.
Mussels a plenty 6.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
The first recorded use of carpet for a prison sentence comes from the book the mark of the broad arrow by no 77 published in 1903.
Noun vaginal pubic hair.
Why does the word carpet mean three in english slang as in a prison sentence of either three years or three months or even a three pound bet.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.
When a male shoves his face into a woman s crotch and eats the hairs and cleans the carpet.
This has confusing and convoluted origins from as early as the late 1800s.
Bag of sand 3.
That carpet bag was cockney rhyming slang for a drag which was.
These are marks left by furniture or other object.
This is a carpet that is manufactured from more than one brand of fiber.
A carpet can burst in the dryer when it is stretched to tight or may be caused by forklift damage.
In carpeting terms twist can refer to either a style of carpet that is highly twisted a frieze as described above or to the twist number of a carpet.
Stand in awe 12.