“It wasn’t until the 1970s, according to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, that the term evolved to signify murder.”
https://www.casino.org/news/vegas-myths-re-busted-to-86-someone-was-vegas-mob-slang-for-murder/
That makes sense because I temember an older fellow I knew back then using the term. It stuck in my mind because I had never heard it from anyone else. And this gentleman certainly did not mean it in the sense of violence, let alone killing. Not even close.
This is actually embarassing. If we’re going to indict the former head of the FBI, make it for something far more solid. Like, I don’t know, how about the Russia Hoax?
Patel’s a weak link in this Administration. Clown.