释义 |
carvie noun- a fellow prisoner who shares in a supply of tobacco, perhaps by subscription to a common supply UK
- “He’s my carvie” = he is my partner in this week’s tobacco. — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, p. 32, 1950
- a prisoner who deals in contraband tobacco; a tobacco baron UK
From the earlier sense (a prisoner who shares your tobacco). This sense describes the prisoner who carves up the supply. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 35, 1996
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