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clout
verb- to hit a person with a heavy blow of your hand UK
Conventional from early C14, by late C19 had slipped into dialect and colloquial use. - She saw Martin hit Robin, and Robin clout him back. — The Observer, 2 July 2000
- to rob or steal something UK, 1708
- We would have left if he had just went out but we knew when he clouted this stuff that we had no rank. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 43, 1972
- “[T]he only thing they’re gonna find out’s that it got clouted in Plymouth about three days or so before” — George Higgins, Cogan’s Trade, p. 109, 1974
- In the reformatory. They tried to clout a color TV among other things, and got busted for it. They’d been playing that caper for quite a while. — Hugh Garner, The Intruders, p. 83, 1976
- The Prizzis had been clouted for a gang of money! — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 59, 1982
- A black-white stick-up gang had been clouting markets and juke joints on West Adams[.] — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 127, 1994
- “Some shitbird clouted the Hollywood Federal at Santa Monica and Cole four days ago[.]” — James Ellroy, Destination Morgue, p. 228, 2004
- to fail to bet a debt AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 15, 1989
- to arrest someone US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 70, 1992
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