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FORK,

a Pick-pocket. Lets Fork him; Let us pick that Man's Pocket. It is done by thrusting the Fingers, strait, stiff, open and very quick into the Pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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FOG
FOGUS
FOOTMAN's Mawn'd
FOOT-Pads
FORMAN of the Jury
FORK
A FORK
FORLORN-Hope
FORTUNE-Hunters
FORTUNE-Tellers
FOUNDLING

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Fork in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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