Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Dead lurk
subs. (thieves’).—See quot.
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1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. i., p. 403. The DEAD LURK, for instance, is the expressive slang phrase for the art of entering dwelling-houses during divine service.
