murder rap

English

Noun

murder rap (plural murder raps)

1. (slang) A murder charge.
   • 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “If You Can’t Make Money”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 189:

     He informed me cheerfully that he had strangled one man in Europe for raping his sister, stabbed another to death in a gambling fracas, and was now beating it from the States because of a third murder rap.

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “murder rap n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang