Law. One who has committed felony.

A person guilty of a misdemeanour.

A person who commits a misfeasance.

An inhabitant of Alsatia (Alsatia, n. 1) in London; a criminal. Now historical.

= cosh-bandit n.

Originally U.S. A physically powerful person, a person who uses violence; spec. a criminal who resorts to violence, a person employed to use…

slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A petty criminal who operates on the streets, esp. as a pickpocket or drug pusher.

one who has committed a war crime.

A person likened to A. J. Raffles; esp. an educated or upper-class man who engages in crime, a ‘gentleman thief’. Also attributive: of or relating…

(originally U.S.) figurative, (a) one who mixes little with others, keeps himself to himself; (b) a criminal who operates alone; also attributive…

A man who uses violence or threats to intimidate people, esp. on behalf of another.

A crime perpetrated without an assistant. Also, a solitary or single person, a loner; spec. a criminal who works alone.

slang. A criminal, a gangster; spec. one who carries a gun. Cf. rod, n.1 14.

elliptical. = cosh-boy n. at compounds, cosh-man.

= muscle man, n. 2a.

slang (originally U.S.). A person or people employed to use or threaten violence.

= cosh-bandit n.

one who uses or carries a cosh.

British slang (chiefly Prison slang and Police slang). A petty criminal; a rough or disreputable person.

One who or that which frightens; spec. a member of a criminal gang who intimidates the victims of its activities, esp. in to put the frighteners i…

A criminal, esp. a petty crook or swindler; one who lives outside the law by his or her wits.

One engaged in irregular or illegal business activities; a ‘shark’.

one who commits a crime while on bail awaiting trial.