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THIEF-Takers,

who make a Trade of helping People (for a Gratuity) to their lost Goods and sometimes, for Interest, or Envy, snapping the Rogues themselves, being usually in Fee with them, and acquainted with their Haunts.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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TEMPLE Pickling
TENDER-Parnel
TERCEL Gentle
TERRA-Firma
THE Dragon upon St. George
THIEF-Takers
THOROUGH-Cough
THOROUGH Passage
THOROUGH Stitch
THREE Legged Stool
THREE Threads

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Thief Takers in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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