Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell’s crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman’s house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between them.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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