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单词 to go legit
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to go (also turn) legit
P2. to go (also turn) legit: (a) to behave lawfully or honestly after a period of illegal activity; (b) (in extended use) to become respectable or mainstream, to behave in a conventional or standard way.
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1907 [see sense B. 1].
1969 R. Salerno & J. S. Tompkins Crime Confederation 204 ‘Ex-hoodlums’ and ‘retired bootleggers’ who have gone legit.
1997 I. Rankin Black & Blue (1998) xiii. 182 The oil industry's pretty tame really. The roughnecks have all but disappeared. Oil's gone legit.
2015 Times (Nexis) 23 June (T2 section) 10 Frank, the unhappy mobster, is trying to turn legit.
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