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lush-roller en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (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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lush roller alternative lexicographic
lush-rollers Number=Plur lexicographic