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ghost
noun- a faint, secondary duplicate video image in a television signal, caused by the mixing of the primary signal and a delayed version of the same signal US, 1942
- — American Speech, February 1951
- Life in this great pretzel center is distinguished by the worst television reception enjoyed by any metropolitan American city – not even barring blast-furnacy Pittsburgh, runner-up for ghosts, blizzards, fadeouts and other visual blah. — San Francisco News, p. 21, 22 May 1952
- a blank stop on a casino slot machine US
- — Frank Scoblete, Guerrilla Gambling, p. 310, 1993
- in poker, a player who frequently absents himself from the table US
- — John Vorhaus, The Big Book of Poker Slang, p. 20, 1996
- LSD US
Usually used with “the”. - — John Williams, The Drug Scene, p. 112, 1967
▶ do a ghost
to leave quickly US- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 75, 1995: “Black street gang terminology”
▶ when the ghost walks
in oil drilling, pay day US- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 59, 1954
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