†(a) a public record (cf. sense 3a) (obsolete); (b) a dossier kept by the police on a person convicted of a crime; a personal history which includes…

Originally U.S. A police record, a criminal record. Also with modifying word: a history of being engaged in a specified kind of illicit or…

U.S. Military slang, Police slang, and Criminals' slang. A personal file or dossier; spec. a criminal record.

a (printed) record of the past performance of a racehorse or racehorses; a form book; also transferred, any past record, esp. of criminal convictions.

slang. (Without preceding article.) A ‘police record’; a criminal conviction.