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rack
verb- to go to sleep US
- — Washington Post, 14 October 1993
- to steal US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 143, 1997
- to shoplift US, 2001
- So we kept on every day, me and Mono, racking up, picking out the colors we need for outlines and fill-ins. — Craig Castleman, Getting Up, p. 3, 1982
- Through these media, the culture of graffiti was transplanted intact, embracing language, customs and rules, bombing, “racking” and the competitive spirit. — Henry Chalfant, Spraycan Art, p. 8, 1987
- “Look what I racked from Radio Shack.” — William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, p. 122, 1994
- Real graffiti writers “boost” or “rack” their paint, both slang for stealing. — Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), p. L1, 29 July 2001
- to perform well US
- I thought I was gonna rack on midterms, but my shovel broke–I forgot I’d even cracked a book. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 105, 1955
- to load (a gun) US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 140, 1997
- in the television and film industries, to adjust the camera lens in the middle of a shot to keep the subject in focus US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmmaker’s Dictionary, p. 135, 1990
▶ rack the bars
to open or close a prison cell door US- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 7, 1992
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