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    From Hibou@vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid to alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 12:26:07 2026
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    To be iced - to be murdered, in gangster-speak.

    To be ICEd - to be murdered, in gangster-speak?

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  • From athel.cb@gmail.com@user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid to alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 16:43:02 2026
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    Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> posted:

    To be iced - to be murdered, in gangster-speak.

    To be ICEd - to be murdered, in gangster-speak?

    ICEd is probably better
    --
    athel

    Living in Marseilles for 38 years; mainly in England before that
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  • From occam@occam@nowhere.nix to alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 18:28:21 2026
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    On 08/01/2026 17:43, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:

    Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> posted:

    To be iced - to be murdered, in gangster-speak.

    To be ICEd - to be murdered, in gangster-speak?

    ICEd is probably better


    Agreed, except neither of those should be 'gangster-speak'. They should
    be dubbed as Trump-speak.

    In gangster-speak those actions were variously known as:

    Drilled; plugged; filled-with-lead; filled with daylight; lead-poisoned.
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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 17:17:02 2026
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    Thursday, occam murmurred ...
    On 08/01/2026 17:43, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:

    Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> posted:

    To be iced - to be murdered, in gangster-speak.

    To be ICEd - to be murdered, in gangster-speak?

    ICEd is probably better


    Agreed, except neither of those should be 'gangster-speak'. They should
    be dubbed as Trump-speak.

    In gangster-speak those actions were variously known as:

    Drilled; plugged; filled-with-lead; filled with daylight; lead-poisoned.

    I think "put on ice" was used in gangster-speak well before the INS
    guys got relabled, and I think it had wide currency in popular speak.
    Not always fatal, sometimes just strongly retiring (including
    incarceration).

    /dps
    --
    "What do you think of my cart, Miss Morland? A neat one, is not it?
    Well hung: curricle-hung in fact. Come sit by me and we'll test the
    springs."
    (Speculative fiction by H.Lacedaemonian.)
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