jackroll, verb transitive
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English slang jack-roll to rob one’s companions while they are drunk or asleep. According to D. Blow (in City Press 11 Feb. 1990 p.3), the term is thought to have been introduced into township slang from a song by American duo Womack and Womack: ‘Love is just a ball game, sometimes you lose — jackroll’.
slang
In township parlance: to abduct and rape (a young woman).
1990 D. Blow in City Press 11 Feb. 3More and more schoolgirls are being ‘jackrolled’ — abducted by youths and raped — for up to a week at a time. Police estimate that during the past two years when jackrolling began, hundreds of schoolgirls have been held captive and gang-raped...Jackrollers are not one gang, but youths — aged from 14 years old — getting thrills by hi-jacking or stealing cars and using them to abduct school-girls, often by threatening them with a firearm...Two Soweto Murder and Robbery policemen..have arrested some of the worst jackrolling gangs...‘The jackrollers warn them that if they testify they will kill them when they come out of prison.’
to abduct and rape (a young woman).
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