1966 4 Sept. iv. 5 Everybody should have a car... How are you going to get it?.. You know, you can get it playing the Murphy.
1970 C. Major 83 Murphy, a con game played on innocent (especially white) men who are expecting sex with a prostitute (usually black).
1976 in D. Wepman et al. 41 I'll play the Murphy to the point of death.
1990 S. Morgan ii. 25 Passing back into the club, she palmed Joe a twenty, his cut of the Murphy.