lush worker

plural lush workers

1. alternativeAlternative form of lush-worker.

   They are a redundancy, in a sense, because in Miami Beach a man can get clipped in enough dim whiskey caverns without adding a lush worker to his expense account.

   1960, Harold Mehling, The Most of Everything: The Story of Miami Beach, page 85

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   “Subway Slim” the lush worker assumed the office of Under Secretary of State and Chief of Protocol, and occasioned diplomatic rupture with England when the English Ambassador “came up on him”

   2010, Barry Miles, Beat Collection, →ISBN

   Lush workers operate in trains, buses, street cars, waiting rooms, and parks. They select a prospective victim who is apparently sleeping or unconscious. Sometimes they test their victim by gently kicking or tapping them as they pass by. If the victim does not react, the lush worker proceeds to take the victim's money and other valuables.

   2013, DeVere D. Woods, O'Hara's Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation, →ISBN