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calling card
noun- a fingerprint US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 42, 1949
- Calling cards, in the form of fingerprints left at the scene of East bay holdups, led today to the arrest of two suspected big-shot partners in crime. — San Francisco News, p. 1, 21 March 1953
- needle marks on a drug user’s arm US
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 45, 1971
- during the Vietnam war, a printed card identifying the unit, left on the bodies of dead enemy soldiers US
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 81, 1990
- Their “calling card” featured an eagle holding the crest of the 101st ABN, and a thunderbolt. — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 137, 1990
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