TO TIP (or GIVE) THE AUCTIONEER, verb. phr. (pugilists’).—To knock a man down: Tom Sayers’ right hand was nicknamed THE AUCTIONEER.
1863. G. A. SALA, Breakfast in Bed, I. 4 (1864). And who, in return for a craven blow, can DELIVER THE AUCTIONEER well over the face and eyes.
