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sting
noun- any crime that achieves its purpose by fraud or deception US, 1930
- “He boast about a sting and effen you don’t believe it, he just might go to the police and confess just to prove it.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 223, 1971
- But when I make that big sting, I’ll straighten you / If you’ll save me a little on the cotton. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 78, 1976
- He wanted to talk about the sting we’re plotting. — Jackie Brown, 1997
- I’ve always told him it’s Tom [jewellery] we’re bringing in, always blagged it that it’s only a little VAT [value added tax] sting and that but he must know in his heart of hearts that that’s bullshit. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 100, 2001
- a robbery US, 1940
- But it wasn’t hard at all; it was the sweetest sting in town. — Clarence Cooper Jr., The Scene, p. 32, 1960
- You know why I pulled that sting? — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 410, 1965
- I entered the barbershop and I took a count on the sting: nine bucks and some change. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, pp. 12–13, 1973
- “I’ll cut New York Willie into the action and cop ten percent of the • sting.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 174, 1979
- Of making a few stings, getting bread together, of Whitey contacting • his man and connecting for weight in heroin and of pushing. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 209, 1980
- a short, sharp chord played to make or dissolve a sense of suspense US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 210, 1973
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