job v.4
1. to cheat, to betray, to ‘frame up’; to corrupt.
 | Colored Base Ball 137: The [...] players [...] endeavor to ‘job’ him out of the business [...] An effort is always made to have an error scored against him [HDAS]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 1 Sept. 11/4: [of a boxing match] Sepctators [...] are not sufficiently intelligent to determine when a fight is being ‘jobbed’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Dec. 6/6: [T]hey were not ‘jobbed,’ or ‘sand-bagged’ or ‘mobbed,’ and [...] they lost fairly and honestly. | |
| Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 79: Go and tell him that Sulllivan jobbed me with the canary bird and that will make them think I was jobbed on my kidnapping charge. | |
| ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 154: I gets away wit’ the work for a while an’ then Kelly and Kiernan jobs me an’ I go down for a ten-spot, outta which I done six honest years in the big house. | |
| You Can’t Win (2000) 284: I was in the district attorney’s office when you were sent to Folsom and I know you got jobbed. I’ll take your case for nothing. | |
| One-Way Ride 240: If he is convicted of no matter what crime his lawyer jobbed him and the twelve men in the jury box were blockheads. | |
| ‘Death Ends the Scene’ Hollywood Detective May 🌐 ‘In other words, he was jobbing you.’ ‘You don’t have to draw me no picture, gumshoe. [...] Why, that crumb!’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 133: job a man To convict unjustly; to railroad a suspect. | |
| A-Team 2 (1984) 191: Ol’ Lynch is gonna go cuckoo when he finds out we jobbed him again. | |
| Rope Burns 156: Pudin was jobbed in his eighth, tenth, and eleventh fights, when judges took fights from him that were clearly his. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 196: I figured you were jobbing Marilyn Monroe [and] the deal was extortion. |
2. (US) to steal.
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2002) 86: Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole. |