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ACADEMY,

a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where the Young Ones are initiated in the Canting Language, and all manner of Cheats and Impostures, and sorted into Tribes and Bands, according to their several Capacities for Mischief.

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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
ALSATIANS

Nearby:

Academy in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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