FLICKING,
to cut, cutting, as, Flick me some Panom and Cossam; Cut me some Bread and Cheese. And, Flick the Peter, cut off the Cloak-bag or Portmanteau.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
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Flicking in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).