lush roller

plural lush rollers

1. alternativeAlternative form of lush-roller.

   The addicts tend to be sneak thieves, shoplifters, and lush rollers.

   1973, Richard Kunnes, The American heroin empire, page 90

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   The other class of thief, socially inferior to the pickpocket, was the lush roller who followed drinking men and robbed them when they collapsed.

   1969, Finis Farr, Black Champion: The Life and Times of Jack Johnson, page 82

   Other denizens of the nighttime world made the rounds: winos, crackheads, lush rollers, bone thugs, pennyante drug dealers, homeless derelicts, and crazies.

   2009, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Revenge of The Dog Team, →ISBN