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Murphy; Murphy game
noun
a swindle involving a prostitute and her accomplice, usually entailing robbing the prostitute’s customer US, 1954- I had heard about jostling and the Murphy for a long time, but I didn’t really know what it was all about. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 160, 1965
- Years later I discovered that the “Murphy” when played by experts was a smooth short con with a slight risk. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 36, 1969
- The first thing I know, I’d been rooked out of my jade by the same slick-talkin’ Armenian cats runnin’ the most sophisticated Murphy I’d ever encountered[.] — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 83, 1972
- Another source of livelihood for me was a first-class Murphy game I used to run up on 111th Street with the tricks looking for hours. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 15, 1975
- I’ll take numbers, cop stuff, steal booze or anything of value from three-cent stamps to rockets / I’ll play the Murphy to the point of death, and I’ll even pick pockets. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 41, 1976
- If we are going to put down murphy for millions, we got to look like millions. — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 156, 1978
- Passing back into the club, she palmed Joe a twenty, his cut of the Murphy, as any bunko prostitution game was called. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 25, 1990
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