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flash-man
(Also as two words.)
[flash a.3]
a. One who is ‘flash’ or knowing; a companion of thieves; a bully, a ‘fancy-man’.
b. A sporting man; a patron of the ‘ring’; a ‘swell’.
a.1789G. Parker Life's Painter 141 A flash-man is a fellow that lives upon the hackneyed prostitution of an unfortunate woman of the town. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 235 A large mob..vowing vengeance on us for our treatment of their flash man. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn v, ‘You're playing a dangerous game, my flash man.’
b.1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 21 The display of flash⁓men, from the Peer on the coach-box, to the most gentlemanly-looking pick-pocket, was very complete. 1819Moore Tom Crib's Mem. 55 Shouts and yells From Trojan Flash⁓men and Sicilian Swells Fill'd the wide heav'n. |