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A FILE, or Bungnipper,

Pick-pockets, who generally go in Company with a Rogue, called a Bulk or Bulker, whose Business 'tis to jostle the Person against the Wall, while the File picks his Pocket; and generally gives it to an Adam-tiler, who scowers off with it.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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A FILCH
FILCHERS
FILCHING-Cove
FILCHING-Mort
To FILE
A FILE
FILE-Cloy
FIRE-Ship
FLAG
FLAM
FLANDERS-Fortunes

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).