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pad verb- to reside US
- “And if you aint got a pad any time, spote,” he said, “you can pad there too.” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 43, 1963
- There’s a cat in the Chicken Shack that knows where Ace is paddin at. — Charles W. Moore, A Brick for Mister Jones, p. 99, 1975
- He pads in the penthouse in my hotel. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 161, 1979
- (used of police) to add to the narcotics confiscated from a suspect in order to render the charge against them more serious US
- “[P]adding,” or adding to the quantity of narcotics found on an arrested person in order to upgrade an arrest — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 91, 1972
▶ pad the ring in horse racing, to place many small bets on several horses in a race while placing a large bet on one horse away from the track, hoping that the small bets on other horses will drive the odds on your horse up US- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 49, 1951
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