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JOSEPH,

a Cloak or Coat. A Rum Joseph, a good Cloak or Coat. A Queer Joseph, a coarse ordinary Cloak or Coat; also an old or tatter'd One.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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INLAYED
JOBE
JOCK
JUCKUM-Gage
JORDAIN
JOSEPH
IRISH-Toyles
IRON-Doublet
ITCH-Land
JUKRUM
JUMBLE-Gut-Lane

Nearby:

Joseph in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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