Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK Und.) in pl., boots [abbr. foot-print].

1889

Clarkson & Richardson Police! 321: A pair of boots ... Stamps, prints.

2. fingerprint, usu. in pl.

1929		C.G. Givens ‘Chatter of Guns’ in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr.; list extracted in AS VI:2 (1930) 134: prints, n. Fingerprints.
1939		R. Chandler Big Sleep 53: A little later we get the routine report on his prints from Washington.
1945		J. Hoyt Cummings Fatal Pay-off 52: There could be a print on this cover [...] I’ll have Peters see if he can find anything.
1951		M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 154: Maybe we don’t have your prints, but George Wilson and Johnny McBridge are both wanted for murder.
1969		C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 60: ‘How the hell we going to find out who killed him?’ ‘You can take his prints, of course.’.
1973		E. Bunker No Beast So Fierce 92: A single print was insufficient to pick him from the FBI fingerprint file.
1995		J. Cameron Vinnie Got Blown Away 8: Been alone they’d have my bleeding prints.