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STOP-Hole Abbey,

the Nick-name of the chief Rendezvous of the Canting Crew of Gypsies, Cheats, Thieves, &c.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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STITCH-Back
STOCK-Drawers
STONE-Dead
STONE Doublet
STOP
STOP-Hole Abbey
STOTER
STOW
STRAPPING
STRAPPING-Lass
STRETCHING

Nearby:

Stop Hole Abbey in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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