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weed
verb- in a gambling establishment, to provide an employee with money to gamble in the hopes of building up business US, 1947
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 248, 1987
- to break and enter a store and steal selectively, avoiding the impression that there was been a theft US
- He carefully “weeded” their merchandise, never taking so much it would be next the next morning[.] — Malcolm Braley, False Starts, p. 131, 1976
▶ weed a poke
to remove all money and valuable items from a stolen wallet US- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 822, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
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