1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BULLY-TRAP [rogue]
a Trapan, a Sharper or Cheat.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Bully Trap in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).