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patch
noun- a district which is the responsibility of a specified police authority; a geographical area designated as the responsibility of public servants, e.g. probation officers, social workers; an area of specialist reponsibility UK, 1963
Originally northern and Midland police, by the mid-1960s it had become common to all public services. - Look, Ripley, my patch is the city. I’m not like you–a country officer. Your area is wide open. — John Wainwright, Death in a Sleeping City, 1965
- — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
- Putney station was my ground–we don’t call it “manor” or “patch", as you may have heard thrown about on TV by screenwriters who haven’t done their research properly. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 58, 2002
- the territory claimed by a prostitute, a drug dealer or a gang UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 86, 1996
- a small community US
- — Amy and Denise McFadden, CoalSpeak, p. 10, 1997
- the zone assigned to a military reconnaissance team US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 162, 1991
- a small piece of material covering a striptease dancer’s vulva US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 160, 1973
- A small piece is sometimes used underneath a G-string so that when a stripper works strong, she can remove the G-string and then be “in the patch.” — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 197, 1981
- a gang emblem sewn to the back of a member’s jacket, signifying full membership in the gang NEW ZEALAND
- If a member of the gang lost his patch he has to try and get it back himself. — Dominion, p. 3, 17 August 1975
- in computing, a temporary modification of code to repair an immediate problem US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 275, 1991
- in the circus or carnival, the person who adjusted legal problems US, 1960
- The “patch”–our legal adjuster–had taken care of everything as far as Johnny Law went. — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 178, 1952
- — American Speech, pp. 308–309, December 1960
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 68, 1980
- an ad hoc payment to a police officer to allow a crime to take place US
- I think you’re involved with the wrong people, vice or drugs ... some other street action. You were taking a “patch” and you took too much. — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 193, 2001
- the proceeds of a crime, confiscated and kept by corrupt police in lieu of arrest US
- Instead of busting him, they took his supply as a patch or payoff and said good-bye. It was the beginning of a lot of patches for dope dealers after that. — Thomas Renner and Cecil Kirby, Mafia Enforcer, p. 75, 1987
▶ not a patch on
not in any way to be compared with UK, 1860- Andre Previn’s Carmina Burana is not a patch on his earlier EMI version with the LSO[.] — The Guardian, 21 February 2003
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