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rush
verb- to change for goods or services, especially to overcharge or cheat UK, 1887
- What’s wrong with rushing the Yanks a pony [£25]? — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 16, 1994
- to be infatuated with someone BARBADOS
- Who’s the girl your brother’s rushing now? — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 94, 1965
- to make sexual advances TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1934
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ rush the knocks
in drug sales, to ignore the order of customers and make a sale US- An informal code of conduct mandates dealers at popular drug spots take turns catering to customers, testified Officer James “Mike” Gant, a police narcotics expert. Cauley was known to “rush the knocks,” street slang for cutting into the rotation and snagging clients out of order. — Oakland (California) Tribune, 18 October 2002
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