The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to FLASH

 

BELCHER		A red silk handkerchief, intermixed with yellow and a little black. The kiddey flashes his belcher; the young fellow wears a silk handkerchief round his neck.
COG		A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth.
CUT BENE		To speak gently. To cut bene whiddes; to give good words. To cut queer whiddes; to give foul language. To cut a bosh, or a flash; to make a figure.
FLASH		Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The gentleman saw what I was about, and therefore I could not pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief. To patter flash, to speak the slang language. See PATTER.
FLASH		A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon.
FLASH		To shew ostentatiously. To flash one's ivory; to laugh and shew one's teeth. Don't flash your ivory, but shut your potatoe trap, and keep your guts warm; the Devil loves hot tripes.
FLASH KEN		A house that harbours thieves.
FLASH LINGO		The canting or slang language.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
FLASH PANNEYS		Houses to which thieves and prostitutes resort. Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth) looks about, And if she's in a FLASH PANNEY (Brothel) he swears he'll have her out; So he FENCES (Pawns) all his TOGS (Cloathes) to buy her DUDS, (Wearing Apparel) and then He FRISKS (Robs) his master's LOB (Till) to take her from the bawdy KEN (House).
FLASH THE HASH		To vomit.
FOOLISH		An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash?
GILES'S or ST GILES'S BREED		Fat, ragged, and saucy; Newton and Dyot streets, the grand head-quarters-of most of the thieves and pickpockets about London, are in St. Giles's Giles's parish. St. Giles's Greek; the cant language, called also Slang, Pedlars' French, and Flash.
GLIMFLASHY		Angry, or in a passion.
HANDLE		To know how to handle one's fists; to be skilful in the art of boxing. The cove flashes a rare handle to his physog; the fellow has a large nose.
HASH		To flash the hash; to vomit.
IVORIES		Teeth. How the swell flashed his ivories; how the gentleman shewed his teeth.
LIGHTNING		Gin. A flash of lightning; a glass of gin.
LOB		A till in a tradesman's shop. To frisk a lob; to rob a till. See FLASH PANNEY.
PATTER		To talk. To patter flash; to speak flash, or the language used by thieves. How the blowen lushes jackey, and patters flash; how the wench drinks gin, and talks flash.
PRAD		A horse. The swell flashes a rum prad: the e gentleman sports a fine horse.
SPORT		To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport or flash one's ivory; to shew one's teeth. To sport timber; to keep one's outside door shut; this term is used in the inns of court to signify denying one's self. N.B. The word SPORT was in great vogue ann. 1783 and 1784.
SWELL		A gentleman. A well-dressed map. The flashman bounced the swell of all his blunt; the girl's bully frightened the gentleman out of all his money.
TATLER		A watch. To flash a tatler: to wear a watch.
THIMBLE		A watch. The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch.