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Definition of "rap sheet" [rap sheet]

  • Slang A police arrest record. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rap sheet" in a sentence
  • "By the time he’d finished reading Gary Ray Trotter’s rap sheet he had eaten the doughnut."
  • "A public defender will describe a fifteen-year-old’s harrowing rap sheet or the nonchalance with which his clients predict they will not live to see their thirtieth year."
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