rap sheet
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7.6
- noun
- /ræp ʃiːt/
- Jargon
:
antecedentes penales
- Pugh has a rap sheet littered with manslaughter, you name it.
And I literally had a rap sheet, you know.
- And I literally had a rap sheet, you know.
- But Joel, I want you to read out this man's kind of rap sheet.
- You know people are saying, Oh yeah, well that guy had a fucking rap sheet and he pointed a gun at a pregnant girl, right?
- Like, he's got a whole rap sheet of things that he has done that are valid, valid criminal charges that can be with, that can be upheld.
- Next thing my dad's printing the, the, the fake rap sheet these.
- Based on the rap sheet of what X or Y political party, you know, is, is all about, right.
Examples
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Judge sends junior home with the old man, and you can bet your last dollar that within a year he'll have a rap sheet as long as your arm.
Fiction book (1993) -
According to his rap sheet, he has been arrested multiple times for various offenses.
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Just listen to this guy's rap sheet.
Blog text (27) -
This is the latest in a rap sheet that is already a mile long.
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His rap sheet includes two counts of attempted murder, among other things.
Blog text (31) -
She's got an interesting rap sheet.
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Trujillo, 26 years old, also with an extensive rap sheet.
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That judge is gonna take one look at your rap sheet and he's gonna dump all over you.
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She has a long rap sheet with lots of arrests for drugs, particularly cocaine, and for prostitution.
Academic text (2004) -
According to his rap sheet, he's got priors for burglary and assault, but nothing that's ever resulted in any hard time.
Synonyms
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3.3
A list of crimes a court says someone is guilty of
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Combining 'rap' (accusation/blame) with 'sheet' (a piece of paper) can plausibly lead a learner to infer 'a sheet listing accusations', so some core sense of a written record of wrongdoing is derivable from the parts. However, 'rap' is slang and the specific institutional meaning — an official police record of arrests and convictions — requires sociocultural/legal knowledge and is not fully predictable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Rap sheet probably comes from a simple police image: a single paper sheet listing a person's raps — an old slang word for crimes or blame. One popular story says police kept a list of arrests on one sheet, so the phrase came to mean 'an official record of a person's arrests and convictions'.