lush-roll

English

Verb

lush-roll (third-person singular simple present lush-rolls, present participle lush-rolling, simple past and past participle lush-rolled)

1. To steal from a drunk who is unconscious.
   • 1955, Collier's - Volume 135, page 8:

     Another Marine, who gets the Dear John letter, is being lush-rolled in a dive when the Marines come to the rescue and wreck the joint.

   • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 177:

     "I'm appealing to you as one Razor Back to another," and he pulled out his Razor Back card, a memo of his lush-rolling youth.

Derived terms

• lush-roller