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单词 to put the doctor upon
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to put the doctor upon (a person)
8. slang. A false or loaded die. to put the doctor upon (a person): to cheat (a person) using false or loaded dice; (hence sometimes more generally) to trick or dupe (a person). Obsolete (historical in later use).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
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1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 6 Hack... Pox o' the Tatts for me: I believe they put the Doctor upon me. Belf. Sen. Tatts, and Doctor! what's that? Sham. The Tools of Sharpers, false Dice.
1697 C. Cibber Womans Wit i. 8 The old Rogue..wou'd ha' put the Doctor upon me..(unknown to him) I flung away the Doctor, and clapt into the Box a Pair of True Mathematicks.
1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies v. 56 But did not this Physician put the Doctor upon you, as the saying is? Do you think this Account he gave of himself was true?
1722 Freeholder's Jrnl. 28 Sept. 230/1 And whether Jack Pudding did not put the Doctor upon a certain Person, when he cry'd out, Z——ds, l am catch'd?
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 260 Here are the Implements; here are the little Doctors which cure the Distempers of the Purse. View more context for this quotation
1801 Sporting Mag. 18 7 Loaded a couple of the Doctors for throwing a seven and nine.
1899 Pall Mall Mag. May 25 ‘I have my “doctors” here...’ With an attempt at laughter he pulled out the dice he had used so lately.
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