rap sheet

noun Slang.
a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.

Origin:
1955–60; see rap1 (def 13)

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rap sheet
 
n
informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) a police record of an individual's criminal history

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(rap) sheet definition


  1. n.
    a criminal record listing all recorded criminal charges. (See also rap.) : The sergeant asked if there was a sheet on the prisoner.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
It was often not possible to identify on the rap sheet the originating arrest that corresponded to that incarceration.
But incineration comes with its own rap sheet of environmental and health-related pitfalls.
Those with cash and connections can clean up a rap sheet quickly.
The suspect's rap sheet revealed that he had been arrested several times in other jurisdictions for burglary.
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