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liberate
verb- to steal US, 1944
Coined in irony by US soldiers during World War 2, and then recycled by the political and cultural left of the 1960s. - [T]he lousy slob ratted on me to the M.P.’s about liberating 10 grand of some kraut’s gold hoard back in ’45[.] — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 15, 1963
- Scavenger Corps and Transport Gang is responsible for garbage collection and the picking up and delivery of items to the various services, as well as liberating anything they think useful for one project or another. — The Digger Papers, p. 15, August 1968
- Stew and I liberated their last few copies. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 61, 1970
- In the rear of the Frederick Street Free Frame of Reference was the free store, brimming over with liberated goods to be shared with whoever needed them. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 266, 1972
- He had liberated two bennys [overcoats] off hangers and was nonchalantly till tapping (rifling a cash register) men’s wear bread. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 5, 1979
- to take control of US
- The news comes in that Avery Hall, the architecture school, has been liberated. We mark it as such on Grayson’s map. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 33, 1968
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