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crumb
noun- a despicable person US, 1919
- “One move outa you or your other crumbs and I’ll have this in your guts,” Crazy rasped. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 213, 1947
- I think I remember Larry sayin’–“Mayor Lindsay is a crumbe!” — Eugene Boe, The Wit & Wisdom of Archie Bunker, p. 102, 1971
- “I began to realize that what I’d promised Goodman would make me nothing but a crumb, workin’ and slavin’ for a few bucks.” — Martin Gosch, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 26, 1975
- [L]andlady to a dozen or so crumbs who flopped into her furnished rooms for a week or a year[.] — William Brashler, City Dogs, p. 77, 1976
- a body louse US, 1863
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 796, 1962
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 29, 1980
- A crumb was a body louse, so crummy as an adjective has also come to mean undesirable. — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 42, 1989
- a small piece of crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
▶ put on the crumb act
to impose something on another person AUSTRALIA- — Sidney J. Baker, The Drum, 1959
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