| 单词 | flash-ken | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasflash-ken  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  | 
	
| 随便看 | 
	
  | 
	
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。