lush roller

See also: lush-roller

English

Noun

lush roller (plural lush rollers)

1. Alternative form of lush-roller
   • 1969, Finis Farr, Black Champion: The Life and Times of Jack Johnson, page 82:

     The other class of thief, socially inferior to the pickpocket, was the lush roller who followed drinking men and robbed them when they collapsed.

   • 1973, Richard Kunnes, The American heroin empire, page 90:

     The addicts tend to be sneak thieves, shoplifters, and lush rollers.

   • 2009, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Revenge of The Dog Team, →ISBN:

     Other denizens of the nighttime world made the rounds: winos, crackheads, lush rollers, bone thugs, pennyante drug dealers, homeless derelicts, and crazies.