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English
Noun
old gentleman (plural old gentlemen)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A playing card that is almost imperceptibly longer than the others in the deck, used by cheats.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, gentleman.
References
- Edward Samuel Taylor (1865) The History of Playing Cards
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary