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STAG,

a Term (inverting Qualities) used for an Enemy, a Pursuer; as, I spy a Stag, used by that notorious young Robber Shepherd, lately executed, when he first saw the Turnkey of Newgate, who pursu'd and took him after his first Escape from the Condemn'd Hold.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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SQUEEKER
SQUEEZING of Wax
SQUINTE-Fuego
SQUIRE of Alsatia
SQUIRISH
STAG
STALE Jest
STALE Maid
STALLION
STALL-Whimper
STALLING

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Stag in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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