gank
v.— «Hickman said he and Maurice Pointer planned to “gank”—the street term for rob—the undercover agent, posing as a customer, by selling him fake cocaine for $28,000 on April 8 on the MSU campus in East Lansing.» —“Hickman tells of plan to sell fake cocaine to undercover agent” by Ken Kolker Grand Rapids Press (Mich.) Nov. 27, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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