| 释义 |
loid Criminals' slang.|lɔɪd|
Also 'loid.
[Shortened f. celluloid n.]
A celluloid strip used by thieves to force open a spring lock. Also attrib. Also as v. trans., to break open (a lock) by this method; to let (oneself) in by this method. Hence ˈloiding vbl. n.
1958M. Procter Man in Ambush xvi. 202 You said you could use a loid. Let's see you open that door. 1960Observer 24 Jan. 5/5 Got yer stick (jemmy)? Got yer 'loid (celluloid strip for spring locks)? 1968‘G. Bagby’ Another Day vi. 107 What point..could there be in changing the cylinder..when..my visitor had managed entry by..‘a loid job?’. He had worked a strip of heavy celluloid in over the lock tongue and pushed it back. Ibid. ix. 174, I loided myself into my apartment. 1968Observer 10 Mar. 25/4 Mortice deadlocks with five or more levers, difficult to pick and impossible to loid. Ibid. 25/5 Doors are opened by picking, loiding, or using a false key. 1968B. Turner Sex-Trap xiv. 134 ‘Have you got keys to all Creedy's places?’ ‘Beatty has. I use a loid myself.’ He showed a tapered wedge of blank celluloid. |