lush-roll

verb

To steal from a drunk who is unconscious.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person lush-rolls · participle present lush-rolling · participle past lush-rolled · past lush-rolled

  1. To steal from a drunk who is unconscious.

    "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.

    1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 177
    1 more example

    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.

    1955, Collier's - Volume 135, page 8
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