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dump
verb- to beat; to kill US
- “I’m just warning you to stay clear. I keep you punks from dumping (beating) each other, I’m satisfied.” — Man’s Magazine, p. 12, February 1960
- Marvin Lewis, attorney for Richard rock, one of five men indicted for murder and conspiring to murder the union official, said that “dumping” meant assaulting a man. Assistant District Attorney Walter Biubbini argued in opposition that “dumping” is listed in lexicons of slang and criminal lingo as synonymous with “killing.” — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 5, 27 May 1966
- to assault US
- — American Speech, p. 194, October 1951: “A study of reformatory argot”
- to break off a romantic relationship with someone AUSTRALIA
- — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 58, 1967
- He thought she needed her head read to dump a feller like Kev in favour of a bloke like Arnie. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 90, 1969
- Sometimes, if the surf was high, really high, he’d get dumped. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 52, 1979
- — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 96, 1987
- Usually this happens after he’s cheated on you and it’s usually because he feels real bad and is too much of a coward to tell the truth. Dump him! — Dolly, p. 55, 1996
- — Gretel Killeen, Hot Buns and Ophelia get shipwrecked, p. 74, 2001
- to derive sexual pleasure from sadistic acts US
- Tricks pay a hundred dollars to dump girls. Sometimes more. I’d never take a dumping myself for less than a hundred. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 155, 1957
- in bowling, to release the ball with the fingers and thumb at the same time US
- — Lou Bellisimo, The Bowler’s Manual, p. 107, 1969
- to fall from a surfboard; to be battered by a wave while bodysurfing AUSTRALIA, 1967
- — Gary Fairmont R. Filosa II, The Surfer’s Almanac, p. 184, 1977
- in motorcyling, to fall to the ground with the motorcyle US
- — Ed Radlauer, Motorcylopedia, p. 18, 1973
- in hot rodding and drag racing, to damage a component partially or completely US
- For example, to dump a clutch. — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 41, 1965
- to lose a game intentionally, especially for the purpose of taking advantage of spectator betting US
- The possiblity of trial and conviction for these basketball players who took dough to dump games is protected by a statute which makes it a felony to tamper with a sport. — San Francisco News, p. 17, 28 February 1951
- Sports Illustrated wrote a real cute article about how maybe I had dumped the game for better theater effect. — Minnesota Fats, The Bank Shot, p. 206, 1966
- Though all hustlers use the verb “to dump” in referring to a game that the hustler deliberately loses for the purpose of cheating spectators, hustlers vary in the object they attach to the verb. — Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others, p. 58, 1967
- — Zander Hollander and Sandy Padwe, Basketball Lingo, p. 31, 1971
- “The players loved it because they were not dumping games.” — Nicholas Pileggi, Wise Guy, p. 194, 1985
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 12, 1990
- “She threw th’ fuckin’ case, went in the tank, intentionally bricked it.” “You never said that before. If she dumped it, you would’ve told me.” — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 156, 2001
- in horse racing, to bet a large amount on a horse just before a race US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 25, 1951
- to lose a large sum of money gambling in a short period US
- I have dumping to stiffs. — Lee Solkey, Dummy Up and Deal, p. 112, 1980
- to vomit after injecting heroin or a synthetic opiate US
- — Current Slang, p. 22, Fall 1968
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 77, 1992
- to complete an illegal drug sale by delivering the drug US
- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 76, 1995: “Black street gang terminology”
- to deny a prisoner’s request for parole US
- The Parole Board can approve the applicant, can deny (“dump”) parole for a year or more, and in the worst-case scenario they can dump a convict “to expiration.” — Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming, p. 246, 2002
▶ dump it in
to rev a motorcycle engine US- A motorcycle policeman revving up in pursuit of a violator is dumping it in. — New York Times, p. 34, 20 October 1958
▶ dump it out
to defecate US- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 203, 1990
▶ dump the clutch
in drag racing, to engage the clutch in a quick and forceful manner US- When you dump the clutch, you do it fast and with as much power as the car can use without having something break. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 19, 1970
▶ dump your load
to ejaculate NEW ZEALAND- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 41, 1998
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