jobbed adj.2
1. (US Und.) accused or ‘framed’ on false evidence.
![]() | Powers That Prey 68: The men of light and leading who had objected to other men’s getting their little bills ‘jobbed’ found it impossible to get their own little bills ‘jobbed’. | |
![]() | My Life in Prison 95: By watching closely and by having a friend keep tally of his task with him as he delivered the boxes of ‘cops’ [...] he satisfied himself that he was being ‘jobbed’. | |
![]() | (con. 1914) Gangs of N.Y. 343: His friends insisted that he had been jobbed. | |
![]() | Prison Community (1940) 333/1: jobbed, vi. To be convicted on a false charge. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. (US und.) betrayed.
![]() | Pimp for the Dead [ebook] ‘You know either of those two?’ Hump shook his head [...] ‘I think we’ve been jobbed,’ I said. ‘The girl?’ ‘My guess’. |