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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lush-roll en · VERB

Meanings

  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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lush-rolls Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lush-rolling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lush-rolled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lush-rolled Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

lush-roller