murder rap
English
Noun
murder rap (plural murder raps)
- (slang) A murder charge.
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “If You Can’t Make Money”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 189:
- He informed me cheerfully that he had strangled one man in Europe for raping his sister, stabbed another to death in a gambling fracas, and was now beating it from the States because of a third murder rap.
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2024) “murder rap n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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