1736 Canting Dictionary / S / SHOULDER-Clapper [person]
a Serjeant or Bailiff.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Shoulder Clapper in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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