subs. phr. (thieves’).—A THIEF q.v.) who plunders drunken men, see BUGGER, sense 1.

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  1856.  H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 46. Those who hocus or plunder persons by stupefying; as ‘drummers,’ who drug liquor; and ‘BUG-HUNTERS,’ who plunder drunken men.

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  2.  subs. (old).—An upholsterer. (Lexicon Balatronicum).

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  3.  See BUG, sense 3.

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