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salt verb- to make something appear to be worth more than it is US, 1852
Originally mining slang. - I salted the graveyard behind St. Pat’s over on the Southeast Side with Indian artifacts[.] — Robert Campbell, Nibbled to Death by Ducks, p. 65, 1989
- to swindle someone by baiting them US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 184, 1950
- to plant or place something to be found US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 232, 1981
- “You salted me!” Lopez said with his hand still clutching his shirt pocket. “I’m gonna tell my parole officer you salted me!” — Gerald Petievich, Shakedown, p. 92, 1988
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