"TIP THE DOUBLE," to "bolt," or run away from a creditor or officer. Sometimes TIP THE DOUBLE TO SHERRY, i.e., to the sheriff.

TIP-TOP, first-rate, of the best kind.

TIP-TOPPER, a "swell," or dressy man, a "Gorger.”

TIT, a favourite name for a horse.

TIT FOR TAT, an equivalent.

TITIVATE, to put in order, or dress up.

TITLEY, drink, generally applied to intoxicating beverages. TITTER, a girl; "nark the TITTER," i.e., look at the girl.-Tramps' term. "TIZER, the Morning Advertiser.-See TAP TUB.

TIZZY, a sixpence. Corruption of TESTER.

TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE, a kind of pudding, consisting of a piece of meat surrounded with batter, and baked. Also, a term applied to advertis. ing mediums.-See SANDWICH.

TOASTING-FORK, a regulation sword, indicative of the general uselessness of that weapon.

TODDLE, to walk as a child.

TO-DO, (pronounced quickly, and as one word,) a disturbance, trouble; "here's a pretty TO-DO," here is an unpleasant difficulty. This exactly tallies with the French word AFFAIRE (à faire).-See Forby's Vocabu lary of East Anglia.

TOFF, a dandy, a swell of rank. Corruption probably of TUFT.-See TOFT. TOFFER, a well-dressed "gay" woman.

TOFFICKY, dressy, showy.

TOFT, a showy individual, a sWELL, a person who, in a Yorkshireman's Vocabulary, would be termed UPPISH.-See TUFT.

TOG, a coat. Latin, TOGA.—Ancient Cant,

TOG, to dress, or equip with an outfit; "TOGGED out to the nines," dressed in the first style.

TOGGERY, clothes, harness, domestic paraphernalia of any kind. TOGS, clothes; "Sunday TOGS," best clothes. One of the oldest Cant words-in use in the time of Henry VIII.-See CANT.

TOKE, dry bread.

TOL-LOL, or TOL-LOLLISH, tolerable, or tolerably.

TOLL-SHOP, a Yorkshire correspondent gives this word as denoting in that county a prison, and also the following verse of a song, popular at fairs in the East Riding :

"But if ivver he get out agean,

And can but raise a frind,

Oh! the divel may tak' TOLL SHOP,

At Beverley town-end !"

TOBY CONSARN, a highway expedition. TOBY is Old Cant.

TOBY, a road; "high TOBY,' the turnpike road. bery on horseback.—Don Juan, canto xi., 19.

"High TOBY spice," rob

TOM AND JERRY, a low drinking shop. Probably some allusion to Pierce Egan's famous characters in his Life in London.

TOMBSTONE, a pawnticket-"In memory of," &c., a well-known Slang expression with those Londoners who are in the habit of following "My Uncle."

TOM-FOOL'S COLOURS, scarlet and yellow, the ancient motley. Occasionally as a rhyme,

"Red and yellow,

TOM FOOL'S colour."

A proposition is said to be TOM FOOL when it is too ridiculous to be entertained or discussed.

TOMMY.-See DICKEY.

TOMMY, bread,-generally a penny roll. Sometimes applied by workmen to the supply of food which they carry in a handkerchief as their daily allowance.

TOMMY, a truck, barter, the exchange of labour for goods, not money. Both term and practice general among English operatives for half-acentury.

TOMMY DODD, in tossing when the odd man goes out. A phrase in frequent use at the London Music Halls. Origin not known. TOMMY-MASTER, one who pays his workmen in goods, or gives them tickets upon tradesmen, with whom he shares the profit.

TOMMY-SHOP, where wages are generally paid to mechanics or others, who are expected to "take out" a portion of the money in goods. TOM-TOM, a street instrument, a kind of small drum beaten with the fingers, somewhat like the ancient tabor; a performer on this instrument. It was imported, doubtless, with the Nigger melodies, TOMTOMS being a favourite instrument with the "darkies."

TOM TOPPER, a waterman, from a popular song, entitled, "Overboard he vent."

TOM TUG, a waterman.

TONGUE, "to TONGUE a person," i.e., talk him down. TONGUED, talkative. TONY LUMPKIN, a young, clownish country fellow.

TOOL, "a poor TOOL," a bad hand at anything.

TOOL, to drive a mail coach, or any other vehicle.

TOOTH, "he has cut his eye TOOTH," i.e., he is sharp enough, or old enough, to do so; "up in the TOOTH," far advanced in age,-said often of old maids. Stable term for aged horses which have lost the distinguishing mark in their teeth.

TOOTSIES, feet, those of ladies and children in particular. In married

TOOL, to pick pockets.

TOOL, a very little boy employed by burglars to put in at small apertures, so as to open a door for the larger thieves outside.

TOOLER, a pickpocket. MOLL-TOOLER, a female pickpocket.

life it is said the husband uses this expression for the first six months, after that he terms them HOOFS.

TOOZLE, to romp.-Scotch.

TOP, the signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle; one cries TOP, and all the others follow, he who last pronounces the word has to snuff the candle.

TOP-HEAVY, drunk.

TOPPER, anything or person above the ordinary.

TOPPER, a blow on the head; " give him a TOPPER and chance it," "let him have a TOPPER for luck."-Pugilistic Slang.

TOP-SAWYER, the principal of a party, or profession. "A TOP-SAWYER signifies a man that is a master genius in any profession. It is a piece of Norfolk Slang, and took its rise from Norfolk being a great timber county, where the top sawyers get double the wages of those beneath them."-Randal's Diary, 1820.

TOPSY-TURVY, the bottom upwards. Grose gives an ingenious etymology of this once Cant term, viz., "top-side turf-ways," turf being always laid the wrong side upwards.

TO-RIGHTS, excellent, very well, or good.

TORMENTORS, the large iron flesh-forks used by cooks at sea.-Sea. TORPIDS, the second-class race-boats at Oxford, answering to the Cambridge SLOGGERS.

TOSS, a measure of sprats.-Billingsgate and Costermonger.

TOT, a small glass; a "TOT O' WHISKY" is the smallest quantity sold. TOUCH, a slang expression in common use in phrases which express the extent to which a person is interested or affected as a fourpenny TOUCH," i.e., costing that amount.-See an example in Mr, afterwards Sir Erasmus, Philipp's Diary, at Oxford, in 1720. (Notes and Queries, 2d series, p. 365.)

Sept. 22. "At night went to the ball at the Angel, A Guinea Touch." It is also used at Eton in the sense of a "tip," or present of money. TOUCHED, slightly intoxicated; also said of a consumptive person. TOUCHER, as near as a TOUCHER," as near as possible without actually touching.-Coaching term. The old jarveys, to shew their skill, used to drive against things so close as absolutely to touch, yet without injury. This they called a TOUCHER, or, TOUCH AND GO, which was hence applied to anything which was within an ace of ruin.

TOUCHY, peevish, irritable. Johnson terms it a low word, TOUT, in sporting phraseology a TOUT signifies an agent in the training districts, on the look-out for information as to the condition and capabilities of those horses entered for a coming race. See TIPSTER.

TOUT, to look out, or watch.-Old Cant.

TOPPED, hanged, or executed.

TOPS, dying speeches and gallows' broadsides.

TOSHERS, inen who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.

TOUTER, a looker out, one who watches for customers, a hotel runner.
A term in general use, derived from the old Cant word.

TOWEL, to beat or whip. In Warwickshire an oaken stick is termed a
TOWEL whence, perhaps, the vulgar verb.

TOWELLING, a rubbing down with an oaken TOWEL, a beating.

TOWN-LOUT, a derogatory title at Rugby School for those pupils who reside with their parents in the town, in contradistinction to those who live in the boarding-houses.

TOW-POWS, grenadiers.

TRACKS, "to make TRACKS," to run away.-See STREAK.

TRANSLATOR, a man who deals in old shoes or clothes, and refits them for cheap wear.

TRANSLATORS, second-hand boots mended and polished, and sold at a low price. Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, is a great market for

TRANSLATORS.

TRANSMOGRIPHY, to alter or change.

TRAP, a "fast" term for a carriage of any kind. TRAPS, goods and chattels of any kind, but especially luggage and personal effects; in Australia, SWAG.

TRAP, “up to TRAP," knowing, wide awake,-synonymous with “up to

SNUFF.

TRAP, a sheriff's officer.

TRAPESING, gadding or gossiping about in a slatternly way.-North. Generally applied to girls and women in low neighbourhoods whose clothes are carelessly fastened, causing them to trail on the ground. TREE, "up a TREE," in temporary difficulties,-out of the way. American expression, derived from RACCOON or BEAR-HUNTING. When Bruin is TREED, or is forced UP A TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. See 'COON. Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED. These expressions originated with Colonel Crockett, of Backwoods' celebrity. In Scotland the phrase is "up a CLOSE," i.e., a passage out of the usual track, or removed from observation.

TRIANGLES, a Slang term for delirium tremens, during a fit of which everything appears out of the SQUARE.

TRIMMINGS, the necessary adjuncts to a cooked leg of mutton, as turnips, bread, beer, salt, &c. Bets are frequently made for a leg of mutton and TRIMMINGS. Or one person will forfeit the mutton if another will "stand the TRIMMINGS. It is generally a supper feast, held in a public house, and the rule is for the landlord to charge as TRIMMINGS everything, except the mutton, placed on the table previous to the removal of the cloth.

TRAVELLER, name given by one tramp to another.

"A TRAVELLER at her

Majesty's expense," i.e., a transported felon, a convict.

TRINE, to hang.—Ancient Cant.

TRIPES, the bowels.

"Next morning Miss Dolly complained of her TRIPES,
Drinking cold water had given her the gripes."

TROLLING, sauntering or idling, hence TROLL and TROLLOCKS, an idle slut, a MOLL, which see.

TROLLY, or TROLLY-CARTS, term given by costermongers to a species of narrow cart, which can either be drawn by a donkey, or driven by hand. TROT, to 'run up," to oppose, to bid against at an auction. Private buyers at auctions know from experience how general is the opposition against them from dealers, "knock-outs," and other habitués of sales, who regard the rooms as their own peculiar domain; we TROTTED him up nicely, didn't we?" i.e., we made him (the private buyer) pay dearly for what he bought.

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TROTTER, a tailor's man who goes round for orders.-University.
TROTTER CASES, shoes.

TROTTERS, feet. Sheep's TROTTERS, boiled sheep's feet, a favourite street delicacy.

TRUCK, a hat-from the cap on the extremity of a mast.-Sea.
TRUCK, to exchange or barter.

TRUCK-GUTTED, pot-bellied, corpulent.-Sea.

TRUCKS, trousers.

TRUMP, a good fellow; "a regular TRUMP," a jolly or good-natured person, -in allusion to a TRUMP card; "TRUMPS may turn up," i.e., fortune may yet favour me.

TRUNKS, trousers-Theatrical.
TUBS, a butterman.

TUB-THUMPING, preaching or speech-making, from the old Puritan fashion of "holding forth" from a tub, or beer barrel, as a mark of their contempt for decorated pulpits.

TUCK, a schoolboy's term for fruit, pastry, &c. TUCK IN, or TUCK OUT, a good meal.

TUFTS, fellow-commoners, i.e., students at the University, generally the sons of noblemen, who pay higher fees, dine with the Dons, and are distinguished by golden TUFTS, or tassels, in their caps.

TUFT-HUNTER, a hanger on to persons of quality or wealth-one who seeks the society of wealthy students. Originally University Slang, but now general.—See preceding.

TUMBLE, to comprehend or understand. A coster was asked what he thought of Macbeth," the witches and the fighting was all very well, but the other moves I couldn't TUMBLE to exactly; few on us can TUMBLE to the jaw-breakers; they licks us, they do."

TRUFF, to steal.-North Country Cant.

TUCK-UP-FAIR, the gallows. The notion of tucking up in connexion with hanging is derived from tucking up the bedclothes before going to sleep-the last preparation.