scam

[Mullins, Bill]

> > >  scam (v) OED has 1963
> > >
> > > "Rebel without a Cause" screenplay by Stewart Stern, 1955
> > online at:
> > > http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Rebel-Without-A-Cause.html
> > >
> > > "You scam a car up there?"
> > >
> >
> > What does "You scam a car up there?" mean?
> >
> From context, I'm guessing it means "Did you see a car up there?"
> I've heard scam used with this sense (rarely), but it isn't
> in the OED definition.

A few lines later, a police officer says:
"We just zeroed three kids in a heap."

zero:     c. intr. To focus attention on, to concentrate on. Also
transf. (const. on), to get a closer view of a subject with a camera

OED has cites from 1959 to 1985, but all are of the form "zero in" or
"zero in on"; note that this antedating lacks a preposition following.


cheese -- to squeal, to confess.  This sense not in OED.
"He's going to cheese, I tell you.  Nobody arrested him!"