Definitions for rap sheet

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

rap′ sheet`*(n.)

  1. a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)

* Slang..

Origin of rap sheet:

1955–60

Princeton's WordNet

  1. blotter, day book, police blotter, rap sheet, charge sheet(noun)

    the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station

Wiktionary

  1. rap sheet(Noun)

    A printed record of an individual's record of citations, arrests, convictions, and incarcerations, usually in a single jurisdiction.


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