trusty
See also: Trusty
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌsti/
- Rhymes: -ʌsti
Noun
trusty (plural trusties)
- A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
- 1941, James Howell Street, In my father's house
- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 58:
- The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
- 1941, James Howell Street, In my father's house
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