lush-roll

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Verb

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lush-roll (third-person singular simple present lush-rolls, present participle lush-rolling, simple past and past participle lush-rolled)

  1. To steal from a drunk who is unconscious.
    • 1955, Collier's - Volume 135, page 8:
      Another Marine, who gets the Dear John letter, is being lush-rolled in a dive when the Marines come to the rescue and wreck the joint.
    • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 177:
      "I'm appealing to you as one Razor Back to another," and he pulled out his Razor Back card, a memo of his lush-rolling youth.

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