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jack-roll
verb- to rob or pick a pocket, especially to rob a drunk US, 1916
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 26, 1945
- “Where are we going?” Nick asked. “Jack-rolling,” Vito said. — Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door, p. 129, 1947
- After a few days or weeks the girls are told some big spenders wouldn’t miss a few dollars if a girl picked up his change or even his wallet. This “jackrolling” works well on drunks. — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 144, 1960
- to abduct a woman SOUTH AFRICA
As a crime, this was especially commonplace in the late 1980s; after “the Jackrollers”, a gang of kidnappers from the Diepkloof area of Soweto. - [W]hite South Africans in particular seem to take a perverse pleasure from their stories of how a friend of a friend was jackrolled or murdered in their beds or shot for their mobile phone. — Patrick Neate, Where You’re At, p. 84, 2003
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