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fence
noun- a person who trades in stolen goods UK, 1698
- They had made contact with a “fence” from Philadephia, to whom they were to turn over the swag for $150,000 in currency. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 18, 1950
- He had been released from Riker’s Island almost two months before, and had picked up a few dollars steering second-story men to a friend of his from Chicago days, a fence. — John Clellon Holmes, John Clellon, p. 198, 1952
- [I]t’s good for a fin by any fence. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 312, 1952
- They had an exceptionally good fence, the owner of a real estate office, a highly respected citizen. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 34, 1960
- Longshoremen, or fences for them, would come into the bars selling guns, cameras, perfumes, watches, and the like, stolen from the shipping docks. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 86, 1964
- He even cut me into the good drygoods thieves so that I would never get burned by fences. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 167, 1965
- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 323, 1970
- Fenster and McManus have a fence set to take the stuff. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- the Vietnam-Cambodia or Vietnam-Laos border US
- Over the river, across the fence / To gomer’s house we go. — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 133, 1990: Night on the Town
- Crossing the fence? It took a moment or two for my mind to comprehend. — Richard Burns, Pathfinder, p. 267, 2002
▶ go over the fence
to escape from prison UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 58, 1996
▶ sit on the fence
to be impartial, neutral or waiting to see who wins UK, 1887- Dad is Caribbean, / mam is a tyke, / do I sit on the fence? / Do I take sides? — The Guardian, 3 May 2001
▶ take the fence
(used of a bookmaker) to fail to pay off a winning bet US- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 149, 1947
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