faggot brief

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English

Noun

faggot brief (plural faggot briefs)

(obsolete, slang) A bundle of worthless papers tied up with red tape, carried by unemployed barristers in the back rows of the courts to simulate briefs.

References

John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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