cattle-rustler

cattle-rustler

One who steals meat from supermarkets in order to resell it. Please tell me you didn't buy this meat from a cattle-rustler.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cattle-rustler

n. a thief who steals meat from supermarkets for resale. (Underworld.) Marty is a cattle-rustler, and she’s got some stuff for sale.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • by the (unit)
  • by the unit
  • drink
  • mystery meat
  • meat whistle
  • buzzard meat
  • red meat
  • plates of meat
  • meat sweats
  • burn something to a cinder/crisp
References in periodicals archive
In "Yellow Woman," for example, a young Pueblo woman confuses her cattle-rustler abductor with one of the ka'tsina mountain spirits who in old stories lured women away.
Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948- )
In our January/February 2010 issue, criminologist Stephen Schneider traces organized crime's development in this country, from the pirates and privateers of our earliest days to highwaymen and cattle-rustlers in the 19th century and on through the murky waters of counterfeiting, smuggling, drug production and human trafficking.
Editor's note