† slang. to stand the patter: to be tried by a court for an offence. Obsolete.
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a1795 Just the Thing (single sheet) He stood the patter, but that's no matter. He gammon'd the twelve.
1819 J. H. VauxNew Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 195Patter'd, tried in a court of justice; a man who has undergone this ordeal, is said to have stood the patter.