| 单词 | flash-case |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflash-case a. Connected with or pertaining to the class of thieves, tramps, and prostitutes. Chiefly in combinations, as flash-case (= flash-house n.), flash-cove, flash-crib, flash-ken. Also flash-house n., flash-man n. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Flash-ken, a House where Thieves use, and are connived at. 1718 C. Hitchin True Discov. Conduct Receivers 8 A Ken or House frequented by the Thieves and Thief-Takers, or, in their own dialect, thoroughly Flash. 1800 Sporting Mag. 16 26 Mack and I called at a flash ken in St. Giles's. 1819 Sporting Mag. 5 122 The flash part of the creation. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Flash Cove or Covess, the master or mistress of the house. 1832 Examiner 684/1 She has been the associate of ‘flash thieves’. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. ii. xi. 332 I know the house..it's a flash crib. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xii. 28 I've been to all the flash cases in town. < as lemmas |
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