Comments on: “Guilty As Charged”– Fossil Fuels Should Rest in Peace https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/08/19/guilty-as-charged-fossil-fuels-should-rest-in-peace/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hapgood's "Rap" 1903 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/08/19/guilty-as-charged-fossil-fuels-should-rest-in-peace/#comment-177076 Hapgood's "Rap" 1903 Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:46:10 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=15265#comment-177076 <strong>The origin of the meaning of "rap sheet", so far as we know it to be:</strong> The sense of <strong>rap</strong> meaning the <strong>crime</strong> itself appears in publication in 1903—although it undoubtedly was used in thieves’ cant earlier than this. From Hutchins Hapgood’s <strong>Autobiography of a Thief</strong> from that year: “What makes you look so glum?"..."Turned out of police court this morning.” “What was the <strong>rap</strong>, Mike?” “I’m looking too respectable. They asked me where I got the clothes.” The origin of the meaning of “rap sheet”, so far as we know it to be:

The sense of rap meaning the crime itself appears in publication in 1903—although it undoubtedly was used in thieves’ cant earlier than this. From Hutchins Hapgood’s Autobiography of a Thief from that year:

“What makes you look so glum?”…”Turned out of police court this morning.” “What was the rap, Mike?” “I’m looking too respectable. They asked me where I got the clothes.”

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