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Vocabulary of the Flash Language

Slang used by convicts deported to Australia in the early 1800s

 

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IN IT . to let another partake of any benefit or acquisition you have acquired by robbery or otherwise, is called putting him in it: a family-man who is accidentally witness to a robbery, etc., effected by one or more others, will say to the latter, Mind, I'm in it: which is generally acceded to, being the established custom; but there seems more of courtesy than right in this practice.
IN TOWN . flush of money; breeched.
 
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Faience : n. Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
 
A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language by James Hardy Vaux, 1819
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