Reverse Dictionary: CHARGE

ADJECTIVES
► CRIMINATE accused; charged with a crime → 1591 obs.
► JACKED UP charged with an offense, esp. while already serving a sentence → 1950s US criminals’ sl.
► UP ON ONE on a charge, standing accused; said of a police officer → 1974 UK sl.

NOUNS
► ACCUSE a charging or accusing with a crime; charge, accusation → 1593 obs.
► ACCUSEMENT a charging or accusing with an offense; an accusing; an accusation, a charge → c1374 obs.
► BAD-RAP 1. a serious criminal charge → 1940s US sl.
2. an unfair criminal charge or sentence → 1970s sl.
► BEEF a criminal charge → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► BUM RAP a false charge → 1926 sl., chiefly US
► CALUMNY a false charge; a slanderous or libellous statement or report → 1564
► DAB a criminal charge; a prison disciplinary charge → 1996 UK sl.
► D AND D a charge of being drunk and disorderly; one who is drunk and disorderly → 1889 US police sl.
► D AND I the criminal charge of drunk and incapable → 1970s sl.
► G RAP a charge made by federal officers → 1937 US sl.
► HABITUAL, THE a criminal charge alleging habitual criminal status → 1972 US sl.
► IMPOSITION charge, imputation, accusation → 1611 obs.
► IMPUTE a charge, an accusation → 1649 obs.
► ONSAW a charge against a person, an accusation; reproach, opprobrious language → c1000 obs.
► TAINTURE charge, accusation → 1621 obs.
► THREAP a charge, indictment, representation of facts; a pertinacious assertion → 1742 Sc.
► WALK a release from a charge → 1950s sl.
► WALLPAPER CHARGES many counts filed against a defendant, to make sure of some sort of conviction → 1990 sl.
► WANT a charge → 1970s US police sl.

VERBS
► BESPEAK to charge, to accuse; to oppose → a1000 obs.
► BUY to be charged for as a result of damaging, losing, etc. → 1938 Amer. sl.
► CALUMNIATE to make false charges against; to slander, to defame → 1554
► CRIMINATE to accuse of or charge with a crime; to denounce → 1646
► DECLARE to clear a person of a charge or imputation → 1460 obs.
► DING IN SOMEONE’S TEETH to charge, to accuse; to bring up old offenses → 1897 Eng. dial.
► DO to charge or arrest someone → 1784 Brit. sl.
► FADE A BEEF to cause a criminal charge to be removed → 1976 US sl.
► FALL to be charged with a crime; to be arrested → 2006 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► HAUL UP to bring someone before a judge or other person in authority in order to answer a charge; to arrest or charge someone → 1865 sl.
► HAVE UP to bring someone before a court to answer a charge; to arrest → 1749 sl.
► IMPOSE to charge; to lay a crime, etc. to the account of; to impute → 1484 obs.
► IMPUTE to charge with, to accuse of → 1596
► PUT ON to charge on the basis of concocted evidence; to ‘frame up’ → 1910s Aust. criminals’ sl.
► PUT THE BITCH ON to file charges against a criminal as a habitual offender → 1960s US prison sl.
► QUIT to clear a suspected or accused person from a charge; to prove one innocent of → a1300 obs.
► RAP to charge; to prosecute, to arrest with a view to prosecution → 20C US sl.
► TAB UP to charge with a crime → L19 sl.