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floating
adjective- moving; not settled in a definite place US
Almost always applied to an illegal crap game that moves from location to location. - Clean-up or no, there usually are more floating crap-games, illegal bookies and after-hour spots in Prince Georges than there are in Reno, where all such things are legal. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 66, 1951
- Somewhere in Cook County, just a hoe-handle and a half from Chicago’s busy Loop, the granddaddy of all floating crap games is going into its fifth successive year. — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 202, 1954
- Up in the Bronx, a Negro held up some Italian racketeers in a floating crap game. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 124, 1964
- What do you think they was doing down there, having a floating crap game? — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, p. 65, 1986
- drunk or marijuana-intoxicated US, 1938
- “Man, when I see you floating, that’ll be the day I quit. That’ll be all. See old preacher Kipper floating!” — Edwin Gilbert, The Hot and the Cool, p. 34, 1953
- — Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles, 1962
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