SECRET,
as, Let into the Secret; When one is drawn in at Horse-racing, Cock-fighting, Bowling, and other such Sports or Games, and bit.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Secret in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).