Queer Checkers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Queer Checkers

Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Queer Bung * Queer Cole Fencer

Nearby

Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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