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To TOP,

to cheat or trick any one; also to insult. What, do you top upon me? Do you stick a little Wax to the Dice to keep them together, to get the Chance you would have? He thought to have topt upon me; He designed to have put upon, sharped, bullied, or affronted me.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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TOM-Thumb
TOM-Long
TONGUE-Pad
TONY
TOOL
To TOP
TOP Diver
To TOPE
TOP-Heavy
TOPPING-Fellow
TOPPING-Cheat

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To Top in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

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