To make a bridge of any one’s nose; to push the bottle past him, so as to deprive him of his turn of filling his glass; to pass one over. Also to play booty, or purposely to avoid winning.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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