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slough verb- to arrest someone US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 818, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- to close down a poker game US, 1979
Also used in the variant “slough up”. - [H]e told me his joint had been “sloughed,” an unchurchly vulgarism meaning shut down by the law. — Earl Wilson, I Am Gazing Into My 8-Ball, p. 26, 1945
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 290, 1979
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