badge-cove

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English

Noun

badge-cove (plural badge-coves)

  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) A parish pensioner.
  2. (obsolete) A licensed (badged) beggar.
  3. (Polari) An old person; a senior citizen.

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References

  • Grose [et al.] (1811) “Badge-cove”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.
  • Albert Barrère and Charles G Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “Badge coves”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 63.