subs. (old).—A lying-in; BUST-UP; EXPLOSION.—GROSE (1823).
Verb. (old: public school).—See quot.
1865. G. F. BERKELEY, My Life and Recollections, i. 129. I … had [at Sandhurst about 1815] to undergo the usual torments of being ‘LAUNCHED,’ that is, having my bed reversed while I was asleep; of being thrown on the floor on my face, with the mattress on my back, and all my friends or foes dancing on my prostrate body.
