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lush-roller en · NOUN
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(slang) A lush-worker.
A European charm of manner and a slight Scandinavian accent completed his front. No one could have looked less like a lush-roller.
1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:"Have you committed any crimes?" "I haven't been caught." "What kind of crimes do you commit?" "Well, when things get tough I can usually pick up a few bucks as a lush-roller."
2007, John O'Hara, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, John O'Hara's Hollywood: Stories, →ISBN, page 146:It was the age-old scam of lush-roller and lush, he thought, or so it would seem.
2005, Jim Reisler, Before They Were the Bombers, →ISBN:
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