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outfit noun- a criminal organisation US, 1933
- In one season the outfit netted $6,000,000 in Miami gambling houses. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 186, 1948
- The Mafia–the Capone gang–The Syndicate–The Outfit–it’s all the same. The Outfit is the Mafia’s “Enforcer” in Syndicate City. — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 83, 1954
- Her old man might have “outfit” friends. If he did we’d be found in an alley with our balls rammed down our throats. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 254, 1969
- It was strictly a penny-ante operation, said Grana, and the Outfit let it exist because it took some heat off of their own dope syndicate. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 158, 1972
- He was mobbed up with the Pleasant Avenue outfit. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 21, 1975
- There’s no doubt there’s a Mafia, a Syndicate, a Unione Siciliana, an Outfit. Whatever people want to call it. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 236, 1988
- a still used in the illegal production of alcohol US
- — David W. Maurer, Kentucky Moonshine, p. 121, 1974
- heroin UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
- the needle and syringe used to inject a drug US, 1951
- You got an outfit here? — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 73, 1953
- I said, “Please, ‘Sweet,’ cook it for me and load my outfit. It’s inside the candy-striped tie in the closet”. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 100, 1969
- I guess they’ll try and make it look like an outfit that a junkie would use, but neither me or my wife use, so I don’t see how they can make a case out of it. — Donald Goines, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, p. 153, 1973
- Anybody got an outfit up there? — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 84, 1996
- a vehicle US
Idaho usage. - — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 213, 1997
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