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flue
noun- a room US
- And most of the flues [rooms] around have a open light bulb which hide up nothing from view so he wants the lights turned off. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 117, 1972
- a confidence swindle involving money in an envelope; the envelope used in the swindle US
- Ordinarily we used the flue as a short con game on barkeeps and small businessmen in the small towns surrounding the city. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 27, 1969
- — M. Allen Henderson, How Con Games Work, p. 220, 1985: “Glossary”
- a prison warder UK
Rhyming slang for SCREW - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- the stomach US
- I woke up frisky and frolicsome as a two-year-old, lined my flue with some fine chocolate and brioche dished by this gay old lady[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 91, 1946
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