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- Adam’s Ale - Water
- Barking Dog - A pistol
- Foggy - Drunk/Tipsy
- Jabber - Speech
- Jaw - Also speech. “Hold your jaw”
- Jacob - A ladder
- Out of Collar - out of place, in allusion to servants. When in place, the term is COLLARED UP. Theatrical and general.
- RACKET, a dodge, manœuvre, exhibition; a disturbance.
- ROOK, a clergyman, not only from his black attire, but also, perhaps, from the old nursery favourite, the History of Cock Robin.
- ROOKERY, a low neighbourhood inhabited by dirty Irish and thieves—as ST. GILES’ ROOKERY.—Old. In Military slang that part of the barracks occupied by subalterns, often by no means a pattern of good order.
- SCAMP, a graceless fellow, a rascal; formerly the cant term for plundering and thieving. A ROYAL-SCAMP was a highwayman, whilst a FOOT-SCAMP was an ordinary thief with nothing but his legs to trust to in case of an attempt at capture. Some have derived SCAMP from qui ex campo exit, viz., one who leaves the field, a deserter.