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fall
noun
an arrest and/or conviction US, 1893
In the US often formed as “take a fall”, in the UK “get a fall”.- Jack had taken a fall on a safe job and was in the Brox County jail, awaiting trial. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 33, 1953
- With the messenger picking up the money, you know, and that wino to take the fall if there was one. — Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, pp. 120–121, 1955
- He had peddled the stuff for Treetop Coulter before he took his first fall[.] — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 105, 1964
- On her third night out she took a fall. By 9 A.M. when she faced the judge, it was evident she was a junkie[.] — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 107, 1967
- He says that at home he has every copy of The Realist published up to the time of his fall. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 46, 1968
- By the time he was twenty-three he had done four bits in the joint. On each fall he had been “jacked up” for either strong-arm robbery or “till tapping.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 33, 1969
- Things continued to go along pretty rough for me until I took a fall for possession of a five dollar bag of heroin and was sentenced to six months on Rikers Island. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 57, 1980
- I’ve taken four falls and never ratted on anyone in my life. — Gerald Petievich, To Live and Die in L.A., p. 132, 1983
- I’m the one that’s gonna take the fall if this place is busted. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 46, 1989
- If it was possible to count all the bads guys still in doing a hard fall, but have friends on the outside they could pay the judge back, we’d have to use the walls in there too. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 89, 1991
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