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spring
verb
to escape, or effect someone’s escape or release, from prison or detention US, 1904- By this time Bow and Emil Burbacher were sprung from The School and showed up on the Corner again. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 20, 1946
- Whenever a crowd of fellows were rounded up in a raid on a gambling house or saloon the proprietor knew how to “spring” them, that is, get them out of jail. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 126, 1954
- As continuity would have it, they are sprung at the same time more or less and take up residence in a flat on the Lower East Side. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 129, 1957
- So now he’s sprung, but he brung his brain with him and he’s gonna bring down that whole country. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 173, 1979
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 108, 1996
- What are you talking about, Rollie? We’re springing ’em? — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
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