1736 Canting Dictionary / G / GOING upon the Dub [crime]
Breaking a House with Picklocks.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Going Upon the Dub in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).