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punch
verb- to open something by force US, 1931
Most commonly, but not exclusively, applied to breaking into a safe. - Billy punched a beer can for the girl[.] — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 226, 1962
- and there’s no charge in the world like when you see that smoke ... and when you’re punching it and you hear that pin hit the back of the safe. — The Digger Papers, August 1968
- If you’re getting ready to punch a safe, you need one man to hold the punch and another to hit the hammer. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 81, 1972
- In either case, whether it’s in a house or an apartment, you never try to pop the door of the safe itself by peeling it or punching it till the pin hits the back of the safe. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 91, 1972
- He knew he couldn’t risk punching it. — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 99, 1976
- to have sex US
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 155, 1971
- in a card cheating scheme, to prepare a deck for a manoeuvre US
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 263, 1962
▶ punch it- to accelerate to high speed US
- “Then I’m gonna punch it,” Jack said, “get up to about a hundred and twenty miles an hour...” — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 273, 1987
- to escape (from prison) US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 212, 1990
▶ punch someone’s ticket- to kill someone US
- I’ve been to too many autopsies of people killed by burglars–old ladies, housewives with kids, people who had never harmed anyone–to worry about how a career burglar got his ticket punched. — Gerald Petievich, To Die in Beverly Hills, p. 65, 1983
- Sure punched his ticket. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 69, 1985
- — Michael Dalton Johnson, Talking Trash with Redd Foxx, p. 102, 1994
- to have sex with someone US
- Callum, to my amazement, was managing a reasonable facsimile of a leer. “I’d punch her ticket in a minute.” — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon, p. 231, 1992
▶ punch the sun
while driving, to accelerate to make it through an intersection on a yellow light US- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 41, 1997
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