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ABRAM-MEN,

otherwise called Toms of Bedlam, shabby Beggars, patched and trick'd up with Ribbons, Red-Tape, Fox-tails, Rags of various Colours; pretending to be besides themselves, to palliate their Thefts of Poultry, Linnen, &c. A sort of itinerant Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, &c.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ABRAM
ABRAM-COVE
ABRAM-MEN
ACADEMY
ADAM TILER
AFFIDAVIT-MEN
ALSATIA the Higher
ALSATIA the Lower

Nearby:

Abram Men in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).