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work
noun- the betting slips in an illegal lottery or gambling operation US
- Another common method of scoring numbers operators consisted of policemen confiscating the gambler’s numbers slips, which are known as “work.” — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 84, 1972
- He said all the things that a bookmaker, grabbed with the“works” on his person, might very well say. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 120, 1973
- [N]ext in the intricately structured racket is the pickup man, who brings the “work”–the betting slips–from various collectors to a controller. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 164, 1973
- I flick the four o’clock game on the tube, make black coffee, and start going over the work. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 7, 1974
- I said the mothers were the threat. They’d had work done. — Dan Jenkins, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, p. 208, 2001
- cheating in gambling, especially in craps US
The statement “There’s work down” means that altered dice or cards are in play. - — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 133, May 1950
- dice or cards that have been altered for the purpose of cheating US
- — John S. Salak, Dictionary of Gambling, p. 278, 1963
- crack cocaine US
- A dealer on the street might chant, “Hey, hey, want some work?” — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 66, 1989
- sex US
- — Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, p. 318, 1959
- a crime CANADA
- Clarke said Joseph frequently boasted of making “moves” and doing “works.” — Toronto Star, p. GT1, 14 October 2010
- in professional wrestling, a completely scripted and staged event US
- work n. a deception or sham — rec.sports.pro-wrestling, 17 July 1990
- Maybe no one told Zybysko that the feud was a work[.] — Jeff Archer, Theater in a Squared Circle, 1999
- The con, or what we refer to in wrestling as “the work,” is to knowingly misrepresent the truth, to lie, to deceive or mislead someone. — Gary Cappetta, Bodyslams!, p. 179, 2000
- a prostitute with steady earnings US
- Most of his girls were white and what pimps called “work.” They were tawdry-looking hos, but they kept him in minks and finger rocks. — Tracy Funches, Pimpnosis, p. 83, 2002
- killing US
- [H]e had done a lot of “work” for the Colombos, meaning he had participated in hits. — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 69, 1987
- “Tell you to put in work; give you a gun and tell you to shoot so-and-so.” — Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chicks, p. 44, 1997
▶ do the work on someone
to kill someone US- So if he did the work on the plumber he would be sending the only woman he had ever really loved to a boneyard. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Money, p. 90, 1994
▶ have your work cut out; have your work cut out for you; have all your work cut out
to have enough, or all you can manage, to do – anything more would be too much UK, 1856
From an earlier sense (to have your work prepared for you).- [H]e had his work cut out for him over the next four weeks. — Don Greene, Fight You Fear and Win, p. 35, 2001
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