flimpv.
/flɪmp/ slang.
transitive. To rob in a certain manner (see quot.).
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1839 W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 111 To take a man's watch is to flimp him, it can only be done in a crowd, one gets behind and pushes him in the back, while the other in front is robbing him.
1862 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 651 We are going a flimping, buzzing, cracking [etc.].
Derivatives
flimp n. (see quot. 1857).
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1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 8 Putting on the flimp. Garotte robbery.
ˈflimping n.
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1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. xi. 180 What with flimping, and with cly-faking... ‘Flimping’ is a style of theft which I have never practised.
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ˈflimper n. one who flimps.
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