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second-story man noun- a burglar US, 1886
- Viciki living with second-story man in Queens — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 175, 8 December 1948
- He had been released from Riker’s Island almost two months before, and had picked up a few dollars steering second-story men to a friend of his from Chicago days. a fence. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 198, 1952
- Shorty talked to me out of the corner of his mouth: which hustlers–standing around, or playing at this or that table–sold “reefers,” or had just come out of prison, or were “second-story men.” — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 45, 1964
- I had Sal Fusco, a great second-story guy. — Casino, 1995
- a skilled card cheat who deals the second card in a deck US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 79, 1988
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