go to Cain's

English

Etymology

From the name of a company in New York City that rented out props and costumes.

Verb

go to Cain's (third-person singular simple present goes to Cain's, present participle going to Cain's, simple past went to Cain's, past participle gone to Cain's)

1. (US, theater, slang, dated) To close a show.
   • 1934, Stage, volume 11, numbers 7-12, page 7:

     […] Norma Terris (who, so far as we had known, was born in Show Boat and went to Cain's with it) […]

References

• Bernard Sobel (1940) The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, page 122
• Jonathon Green (1984) Newspeak

Anagrams

• co-agonist, coagonist