autem cove

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autem cove (plural autem coves)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A married man.
    • 1859, George Washington Matsell, The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, A Hundred Stretches Hence:
      Oh! where will be the culls of the bing / A hundred stretches hence? / The bene morts, who sweetly sing, / A hundred stretches hence? / The autum-cacklers, autum-coves, / The jolly blade who wildly roves; / And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, / And all the cops and beaks so knowin', / A hundred stretches hence?

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