ABSTRACT
*ice, n.—4. Protection money: since ca. 1925, esp. in Florida and orig. among gamblers. In, e.g., Turkus & Feder, 1951 ; Estes Kefauver, Crime in America, 1952; Ed Reid, The Shame of New York, 1953; Danforth & Horan, The D.A.'s Man, 1957 (' graft ').
