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firm
noun- a gang of football hooligans UK
A business-like self-description, adopted from professional criminals. - Chelsea also made up the bulk of the England mob that had become a powerful magnet to firm members up and down the country. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 47, 1999
- a criminal gang UK, 1969
From the conventional sense as a “business”. - Even before we was a firm, we was a tidy little crew. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 19, 2001
- a squad of detectives, especially a close-knit group UK
A humorous adoption of the “criminal gang” sense. - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- a criminal set-up between a police officer or officers, especially CID, and a criminal gang UK
- — G.F Newman, Sir, You Bastard, 1970
▶ on the firm
as a constant arrangement, steadily UK- So we started seeing each other on the firm and everything is rosy for a couple or three months. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 29, 2001
▶ the firm
the British royal family UK
Monarchy seen as a business is a notion very much in tune with the ethics of the late 1980s.- [Diana, Princess of Wales] was an outcast from the family she called “the firm”. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 251, 2001
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