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ghost
verb- to transfer a prisoner from one prison to another at night after the prison has been secured US
- — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 57, 1982
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 10, 1992
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 57, 1996
- Come out [of solitary confinement] after two days, fight again, more chokey. I was up and down like a bride’s nightie until we were ghosted off to the seaside. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 42, 1998
- to vanish US
- Their skulls won’t let ‘em believe a Nigger was clever enough to ghost outta here. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 265, 1969
- to relax, especially while evading duty US, 1982 Military use.
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 93, 1991
- to write an article, story, or book on behalf of and under the name of someone else UK, 1932
- “You were AA and slipped as all such persons do until their autobiographies are ghosted.” — Irving Shulman, College Confidential, p. 164, 1960
- “You think he won’t notice that someone was ghosting the paper for you?” — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 62, 1963
- to ambush US
- Ghosting the dude wouldn’t be hard. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 124, 1992
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