Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bakes
subs. (American thieves’).—A schoolboy.
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2. (American).—An original stake: chiefly schoolboys’: e.g., ‘When I get my BAKES back I shall stop playing.’ [BARTLETT: in reference possibly to a baker not always getting his BAKE safely out of the oven.]
