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lamster noun a fugitive from justice or retribution US, 1904- The owner would accept no payment for keeping the jobs lamster. — Burton Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc., p. 158, 1951
- Tourists, servicemen, merchant seamen, gamblers, perverts, drifters, and lamsters from every State in the Union. — William Burroughs, Junkie, pp. 70–71, 1953
- I later learned that they put a shadow on Gay and checked her calls, hoping she would lead them to the lamster. — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 35, 1960
- “You know this is a lamster’s hangout up here in these sticks,” he said. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 64, 1966
- — John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, p. 472, 1974
- He’s a lamster Jap, he’s a youth gang member, he did a deuce for B and E and when last seen he was passing out anti-American leaflets. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 275, 1994
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