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[Douglas G. Wilson]

> >From context, it seemed to mean "to run interference for" or "to help out by
> creating a distraction" or "to take attention away from".
This word appears in the Cassell's slang dictionary (2nd ed.): "of a
female prisoner, to act as a lookout".

Is the word really restricted to female prisoners?

Is it from hockey originally, or what?

-- Doug Wilson

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