TAPE, Red or White,
Geneva, Aniseed, Clove water, so called by Canters and Villains, and the Renters of the Trap, &c. in Newgate, ans other Prisons.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).