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lumber
verb- to steal UK
- [J]ust to make sure the right gear was lumbered. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 21, 1956
- to fight US, 1982
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Fall 1982
- to form an initial liaison with someone sexually attractive, especially with a view to greater intimacy AUSTRALIA, 1933
- Ma pal got lumbered by your big brother. — Michael Munro, The Patter, p. 43, 1985
- to encumber with problems or trouble UK
- The boys were on to him. He had been lumbered in his turn. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 156, 1956
- to arrest UK, 1812
First recorded in 1812 (Vaux) meaning “to jail”, from “lumber” (to pawn). - “Yeah, they’d lumber him f’sure, if they caught him wandering round like that!” — W.R. Bennett, Wingman, p. 66, 1961
- — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 106, 1966
- — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 167, 1979
- MacGillicuddy could have lumbered them for even having the stuff[.] — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 30, 1982
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 35, 1983
- — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 34, 2001
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