turn n.3
a robbery.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | In the Blood 143: To ‘open tank’ I yearn, ‘screw in’ or ‘make a turn.’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 66: When he gets out he’ll be timid, an’ he’ll do a petty sneak turn, an’ he’ll get a year in the band-house. | |
| ‘Frozen Stiff’ in Popular Detective Mar. 🌐 Sidney Green, a con with a couple of turns to his credit. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to fight.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Daily News 10 Apr. in (1909) 151/1: Ansburgh even told one of the officers that he would have liked to ‘have a turn with him’, placing himself at the time in a sparring attitude. |
(drugs) to withdraw from drug use.
| DRUG-ARM Aus. 🌐 make the turn To withdraw from drugs. |
(US) out on a spree.
| Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: on the turn — Out for an evening of unlimited sport that includes all of the spots that are most frequented, with any hour the next morning seeing you home. |