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hot prowl adjective said a burglary of a house whose occupants are at home US, 1933- One evening, Birse asked Willie to help him track down a couple of hot prowl burglars. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 105, 1993
- Grady was a hot-prowl burglar who cased his jobs when he cleaned carpets. — Stephen Cannell, The Viking Funeral, p. 46, 2002
- “He’s been telling street creeps I gave him up to the Sheriff’s on a hot-prowl job.” — James Ellroy, Destination Morgue, p. 238, 2004
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