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SILK Snatchers,

a Set of Varlets, who snatch Hoods, Scarves, Handkerchiefs, or any Thing they can come at.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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SHRED
SHUFFLER
SHURK
SICE
To SILENT a Man
SILK Snatchers
SIMKIN
SIMON
SINGLE-Ten
SIR JOHN
SIR TIMOTHY

Nearby:

Silk Snatchers in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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