subs. phr. (American).—1.  See quot.

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  1840.  HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 3 S., ch. xi. ‘The way she walks her chalks ain’t no matter. She is a regular FORE-AND-AFTER.’

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  2.  (venery).—A DOUBLE-BARRELLED (q.v.) harlot. [As in the song attributed to an eminent living man of letters: “Sing whore, sing whore, Behind and before, Her price is a shilling— She never gets more.”]

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