| 单词 | badger game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbadger game badger game n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S. Criminals') an extortion scheme in which the victim is lured, usually by a woman, into a compromising situation and is then surprised and blackmailed by an accomplice. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > blackmail > types of scheme badger game1858 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > blackmail > types of scheme > lure in badger1858 badger game1858 1858 N.Y. Times 4 June 8/1 Jane was wanted to answer a charge of having come the ‘badger’ game a few evenings since on a respectable elderly gentleman, whom she encountered in Houston-street. 1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 228 I know of one case where a man alone worked a variation of the badger game on women. 1936 E. S. Gardner Case of Stuttering Bishop (1937) xiv. 217 It looks too damned much like a badger game. 1962 H. Kane Killer's Kiss xx. 156 She stood naked... ‘You're in one hell of a lot of trouble,’ he said. The old badger game. 2003 Mainichi Daily News (Nexis) 26 June 8 The boys admitted to playing the badger game after reading a magazine article saying that such a trick was lucrative because few victims would report the affair to police. < as lemmas |
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