| 单词 | morocco man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMorocco man Morocco man n. now historical (chiefly in 18th cent.) an agent of an insurance broker who issued side bets (known as ‘insurances’) on the outcome of the lottery. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > other types of defrauder or swindler leger1591 concealer1597 break-bulk1622 bug hunter1725 land-shark1769 Morocco man1796 land-cook1807 nob-pitcher1819 bubble-man1862 scuttler1869 lumberer1897 prop man1966 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis (ed. 3) 153 (note) Fraudulent Lottery Insurances have not diminished. The Offices are numerous all over the Metropolis,..to many of which there are persons attached, called Morocco Men, who go about from house to house among their former customers, and attend in the back parlours of Public Houses, where they are met by customers who make insurances. 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. ix. 247 And the men who are sent about to public houses to entice poor people into illegal lottery insurances, are called Morocco-men. 1893 J. Ashton Hist. Eng. Lotteries xxii. 298 The insurance offices in the metropolis..had jackals, touts who provided prey for them, in the shape of Morocco men, so called from the red Morocco pocket-books they used to carry with them. 1932 C. L. Ewen Lotteries & Sweepstakes viii. 264 In 1800 there were nearly 7,500 morocco men (including hired armed ruffians and bludgeon men). < as lemmas |
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