bank
v.— «The Bella Vista Boys—named, in a fashion, after the Baltimore neighborhood Belle Vista—didn’t just blame Rabb, they “banked” him, or ganged up on him to teach him a lesson.» —“Schoolyard squabble ends in boy’s death” by Dawn Fallik in Baltimore, Md. Peoria Journal Star Feb. 13, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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