A pawnbroker’s shop; also a necessary house. Carried to my uncle’s; pawned. New-married men are also said to go to their uncle’s, when they leave their wives soon after the honey moon.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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