TO TAKE A BLINDER, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To die: see HOP THE TWIG.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon. ‘A Hundred Stretches Hence,’ 124.

        Some rubbed to wit had napped a winder,
And some were scragged and took a BLINDER.

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