flimp

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Verb

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flimp (third-person singular simple present flimps, present participle flimping, simple past and past participle flimped)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; to commit petty theft.
    • 1985 October 24, Martin Banham, Plays by Tom Taylor: Still Waters Run Deep, The Contested Election, The Overland Route, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166:
      Not worth flimping, eh?
    • 1862, Macmillan's Magazine, page 111:
      I don't go to say that what with flimping, and with cly-faking, []

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary