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soldier
noun- a regular, low-level member of a criminal organisation who can be counted on to follow orders US, 1963
- I killed one of their soldiers a few years ago. — Juan Carmel Cosmes, Memoir of a Whoremaster, p. 10, 1969
- We got the soldiers out covering everybody and even if we lose a few more, we’re going to get somebody sooner or later. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 25, 1972
- The bosses are sitting on millions and they say, you no do-a this, you no do-a that–meanwhile they close the books and the soldiers have to drive trucks on the side to live. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 41, 1975
- Every time they broke up a mob score or bounced soldiers and workers around, they planned that the Prizzis had once sold their bank to Robert Finlay. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 234, 1982
- The lookout. Just a guy in the ranks, one of the soldiers. But he wouldn’t be there unless someone he worked for was upstairs. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 130, 1985
- He ain’t one of Cabot’s soldiers either. He’s gotta be from outta town. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- Mazilli played cards with the old-timers and their soldiers almost every day. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 381, 1992
- a male lookout for a criminal operation US
- — American Speech, p. 97, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the southwest”
- a bottle of alcohol; a can of beer US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 17, 1945
- Schoons stood up and chucked his can between two trees into the river. “Look at that old soldier go,” he mourned. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 71, 1965
- a finger of bread or toast UK
- He cut his buttered bread into soldiers to dip into the yolk. — Paul Scott, Staying On, 1977
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