subs. (American thieves’).—The nose: see BOCO.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, xx. I was knocked silly and taken to the same ’orspital, and when I woke I was in bed, my BOKO all plastered up like a broken arm, and a gal in a white hat and blue dress a-waiting on me—a real lady, no kid.
