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  • Little_Girlundefined Offline
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    to steal

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      To rip someone off,To get someones money by deceit.To scam someone for thier money by creating a ploy.To get over on a person or persons.
      Its an old slang term used in the early part of the 20th century.Depicted in the movie The Sting.
      It was picked up again in the Bay Area in the 1980s(mainly Oakland I believe)

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        v. - to steal

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          To get arrested by the police.

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            to detained, tie up, usually with ill intentions

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              n. fake illicit drug

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                To get over on The System or The Man.

                To undercut

                To lie for a cause

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                  to [jump] upon someone causing them [pain] usually in a large group all [gaffling] one person

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