- spin someone's drum
- Vrb phrs. To search someone's house or property. Police use
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
spin someone's drum
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spin (someone's) drum — vb British to make an official search of someone s house, in the jargon of the police force. Drum is one s home and spin provides the play on words, referring to the spinning of a drum in a fairground lottery. In the 1990s spin this was used as… … Contemporary slang
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