CREDIT CARD
ADJECTIVES
1970 — ON THE PLASTIC using stolen credit cards for a variety of frauds and swindles → US criminals’ sl.
NOUNS
..20C — SKIMMING illegally taking details of a credit card by passing it through a special scanner which ‘reads’ the information contained on the magnetic strip → Brit. sl.
1974 — PLASTIC MONEY a credit card → sl., orig. US
1980 — PLASTIC a credit card → sl., orig. US
1997 — PHISHING a stealing credit card data on the internet → US
2004 — PHISH an instance of stealing credit card data on the internet → US
VERBS
2003 — PHISH to steal credit card data on the internet → US
Lexicophilia 