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Citations:paint houses

English citations of paint houses

Mob slang for work as a hitman, from the blood that supposedly gets splattered on walls or floors
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  • 2004, Charles Brandt, I Heard You Paint Houses:
    The next thing I heard were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to me. "I heard you paint houses," Jimmy said.
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