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max
noun- maximum; a maximum US, 1851
- I laid up there in the cell, telling myself, even if I can get this cut down to a lesser charge and stand a better chance of getting a lower max, I still end up doing that max[.] — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 115, 1990
- A year–max–that’s all I could do. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 243, 2001
- a maximum security prison US, 1961
- San Quentin, although it was a prison, wasn’t a max, though they had other ways of dealing with screw-ups. — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 193, 2000
▶ to the max
as far as possible, to the limit US, 1971- I left that scene and returned to my room, uptight to the max! — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 121, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 268, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1983
- That’s what Marshall had, class. He demonstrated it to the max, on at least one romantic occasion. — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 75, 1989
- My imagination’s taxed to the max. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 255, 1992
- This guy is like an angel to them and supports me to the max, with money and all that business. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 89, 1994
- I’ve got a connection to the equipment and the mail order distri-bution, not to mention those kids I got out there who are hot-fuck-action to the max. — Boogie Nights, 1997
- Then after years of doing all sorts of art courses, I got into graffiti, which pissed them off to the max. — X-Ray, p. 72, May 2003
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