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Entries releated to SHOP

 

ALL NATIONS		A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram-shop, collected in a vessel into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied.
ALLS		The five alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the second, a bishop in pontificals; motto, I pray for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: fourth: a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; motto, I fight for all: fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all.
ANGLERS		Pilferers, or petty thieves, who, with a stick having a hook at the end, steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.; also those who draw in or entice unwary persons to prick at the belt, or such like devices.
APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP		A woman's bosom.
AVOIR DU POIS LAY		Stealing brass weights off the counters of shops.
BANKRUPT CART		A one-horse chaise, said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shop-keepers and tradesmen.
BARKER		The shopman of a bow-wow shop, or dealer in second hand clothes, particularly about Monmouth-Street, who walks before his master's door, and deafens every passenger with his cries of - Clothes, coats, or gowns - what d'ye want, gemmen? - what d'ye buy? See BOW-WOW SHOP.
BISHOP		A mixture of wine and water, into which is put a roasted orange. Also one of the largest of Mrs. Philips's purses, used to contain the others.
BISHOPED, or TO BISHOP		A term used among horse-dealers, for burning the mark into a horse's tooth, after he has lost it by age; by bishoping, a horse is made to appear younger than he is. It is a common saying of milk that is burnt too, that the bishop has set his foot in it. Formerly, when a bishop passed through a village, all the inhabitants ran out of their houses to solicit his blessing, even leaving their milk, etc. on the fire, to take its chance: which, went burnt to, was said to be bishoped.
BLOSS or BLOWEN		The pretended wife of a bully, or shoplifter.
BOB		A shoplifter's assistant, or one that receives and carries off stolen goods. All is bob; all is safe.
BOW-WOW SHOP		A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites. See BARKER.
BOWSING KEN		An ale-house or gin-shop.
BULKER		One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old-fashioned shop windows.
BUM BOAT		A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, etc. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop.
BUTTOCKING SHOP		A brothel.
COLLEGIATES		Prisoners of the one, and shopkeepers of the other of those places.
CURTAILS		Thieves who cut off pieces of stuff hanging out of shop windows, the tails of women's gowns, etc.; also, thieves wearing short jackets.
DIP		A cook's shop, under Furnival's Inn, where many attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take out the wrinkles from their bellies. DIP is also a punning name for a tallow-chandler.
DUDDERS, or WHISPERING DUDDERS		Cheats who travel the country, pretending to sell smuggled goods: they accost their intended dupes in a whisper. The goods they have for sale are old shop-keepers, or damaged; purchased by them of large manufactories. See DUFFER.
FAM LAY		Going into a goldsmith's shop, under pretence of buying a wedding ring, and palming one or two, by daubing the hand with some viscous matter.
GO SHOP		The Queen's Head in Duke's court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where gin and water was sold in three-halfpenny bowls, called Goes; the gin was called Arrack. The go, the fashion; as, large hats are all the go.
GOSPEL SHOP		A church.
HAND AND POCKET SHOP		An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for.
HEAVERS		Thieves who make it their business to steal tradesmen's shop-books.
IRONMONGER'S SHOP		To keep an ironmonger's shop by the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be hanged in chains. Iron-bound; laced. An iron-bound hat; a silver-laced hat.
KNACK SHOP		A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory.
LEGGERS		Sham leggers; cheats who pretend to sell smuggled goods, but in reality only deal in old shop-keepers or damaged goods.
LIFT		See SHOPLIFTER, etc.
LOB		A till in a tradesman's shop. To frisk a lob; to rob a till. See FLASH PANNEY.
LOB		Going on the lob; going into a shop to get change for gold, and secreting some of the change.
LOUNGE		A loitering place, or gossiping shop.
MINE UNCLE'S		A pawnbroker's shop; also a necessary house. Carried to my uncle's; pawned. New-married men are also said to go to their uncle's, when they leave their wives soon after the honey moon.
NlCKNACKATORY		A toyshop.
NYP SHOP		The Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane, where Burton ale is sold in nyps.
PANTILE SHOP		A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a cock-pit.
PAVIOUR'S WORKSHOP		The street.
PINCH		To go into a tradesman's shop under the pretence of purchasing rings or other light articles, and while examining them to shift some up the sleeve of the coat. Also to ask for change for a guinea, and when the silver is received, to change some of the good shillings for bad ones; then suddenly pretending to recollect that you had sufficient silver to pay the bill, ask for the guinea again, and return the change, by which means several bad shillings are passed.
POPS		Pistols. Popshop: a pawnbroker's shop. To pop; to pawn: also to shoot. I popped my tatler; I pawned my watch. I popt the cull; I shot the man. His means are two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.
RIDING ST GEORGE		The woman uppermost in the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is said to be the way to get a bishop.
SAINT		A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames.
SCHISM SHOP		A dissenting meeting house.
SHOP		A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned.
SHOPLIFTER		One that steals whilst pretending to purchase goods in a shop.
SIZAR		Formerly students who came to Cambridge University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford, but by the exertions of the present Bishop of Llandaff, who was himself a sizar, they were absolved from all marks of inferiority or of degradation. The chief difference at present between them and the pensioners, consists in the less amount of their college fees. The saving thus made induces many extravagant fellows to become sizars, that they may have more money to lavish on their dogs, pieces, etc.
SLAP-BANG SHOP		A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READY SLAP-BANG, i.e. immediately. This is a common appellation for a night cellar frequented by thieves, and sometimes for a stage coach or caravan.
SLEEPING PARTNER		A partner in a trade, or shop, who lends his name and money, for which he receives a share of the profit, without doing any part of the business.
SLOP SELLER		A dealer in those articles, who keeps a slop shop.
SNAP THE GLAZE		To break shop windows or show glasses.
STALLING KEN		A broker's shop, or that of a receiver of stolen goods.
STAR LAG		Breaking shop-windows, and stealing some article thereout.
SWAG		A shop. Any quantity of goods. As, plant the swag; conceal the goods. Rum swag; a shop full of rich goods.
TWO TO ONE SHOP		A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being two to one that the goods pledged are never redeemed.
WHISTLING SHOP		Rooms in the King's Bench and Fleet prison where drams are privately sold.
WINDER		Transportation for life. The blowen has napped a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for stealing in a shop.