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upright man (plural upright men)
- (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel to ony puir gypsy; and there was not one, from Johnnie Faa the upright man, to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a dud from them.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upright, man.
2013, Danson Enogiomwan Ubebe, Return to God: The ABC of 'set Free by Knowing the Truth', →ISBN, page 19:Later He gave him freedom from the Lord to live alone as an upright man to cultivate and keep His garden called Eden.
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- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “upright man”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 391.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “upright man”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume VII, Neill and Co.] , →OCLC, page 264.