n
(archaic, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves.
n
(archaic, thieves' cant) Someone hiding from the police.
n
(idiomatic, archaic, thieves' cant and slang) A pickpocket's accomplice; the person who takes the goods a pickpocket steals and leaves with them.
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(UK, Australia) A thief who snatches a handbag, shoulder bag, rucksack, etc., from the person carrying it.
n
Alternative spelling of ball-breaker [(US, idiomatic, vulgar) A person or task which is excessively demanding or punishing.]
n
Alternative form of bandulu [(Caribbean, Jamaica) Crime; something illicit; a scam.]
adj
(informal) Spending time in prison or jail.
n
Alternative form of batteler [(Oxford University, obsolete) A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.]
n
One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
n
The operator of a bucket shop; a fraudulent or deceptive trader.
n
(obsolete, slang, rare) A bailiff.
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(military, slang, in the plural) Civilian clothing; mufti.
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(obsolete, slang) A jailer.
v
(Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
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(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
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(slang, archaic) A thief's accomplice who distracts the victim while the thief steals.
n
(now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
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(slang, African-American Vernacular) The act of holding a gun sideways.
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(chiefly British, slang) A small-time thief.
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(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
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(usually attributive) Alternative form of goldbrick [Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.]
n
A receiver of stolen goods.
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(obsolete) A sturdy beggar.
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(US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
n
(slang) An arrest on false pretexts.
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(historical, law) Alternative form of infangthief. [(historical, law) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves captured within their estates, sometimes restricted to the lord's tenants or men and sometimes limited to those caught in flagrante delicto.]
n
Alternative form of kibosh [(slang) A checking or restraining element. Only used in put the kibosh on and put on the kibosh.]
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(chiefly US, slang) A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization.
n
Alternative spelling of leg-breaker [(chiefly US, slang) A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization.]
n
Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
n
Alternative form of mugger (“type of crocodile”) [A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.]
n
A pickpocket working individually, apart from their normal gang.
n
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
n
(Britain) security guard
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(obsolete) A bailiff who metaphorically hooks or seizes malefactors; a policeman; a constable.
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(historical, law, rare, countable) A thief so captured and tried.
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(UK, slang) A shoplifter.
n
One who steals or abducts a pet (domestic animal).
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Alternative spelling of pickpocket [One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.]
n
Alternative form of pickpurse [One who steals purses, or money from purses.]
n
(chiefly India) A pickpocket.
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(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A police informant.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
n
(chiefly US, informal) The work of a racketbuster, breaking up criminal rackets.
n
A day on which university students do silly things for charity; often the culmination of rag week.
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A person who sells rags.
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(slang, obsolete) A highway robber.
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Alternative form of rapparee [A bandit or brigand.]
n
(informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
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One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.
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(military, slang) An office clerk.
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(chiefly US, archaic) A criminal who accosts travelers and robs them.
v
(idiomatic, disapproving) To use a young person for a purpose inappropriate to his or her age.
n
(UK, obsolete) A bold, stout robber, or night thief.
n
(Cockney rhyming slang) Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
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Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”)
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(slang, US) A thief, especially one who climbs into buildings above ground level.
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(archaic) One who shews.
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(derogatory) Any person paid to endorse a product.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A shoplifter.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
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Alternative form of shot caller [(slang) Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang.]
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(obsolete, slang) Highway robbery as a career.
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(UK, slang, archaic) A pickpocket's accomplice who takes the stolen goods in case the pickpocket is searched.
n
A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.
v
(Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
n
(historical, cant) A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
n
(slang) A performer of trap music.
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(prison slang) A sex offender.
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(archaic, UK, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
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Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
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Alternative form of outfangthief [(historical, law, properly, rare) A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.]
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(archaic) An itinerant beggar who carries a pouch.
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Alternative form of wastor [(obsolete) A thief.]
v
(Australia, colloquial) To bring down from within; to undermine.
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(UK, slang, with "the") Pickpocketing.
n
(slang, derogatory) Synonym of Xbox
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