subs. (thieves’).—Stealing from the person.
1857. DUCANGE ANGLICUS, pseud. The Vulgar Tongue, p. 38. He told me as Bill had FLIMPED a yack.
1862. Cornhill Magazine, vol. vi., p. 651. We are going a FLIMPING, buzzing, cracking, tooling, wireing, and away we go.
1861. H. KINGSLEY, Ravenshoe, ch. lx. FLIMPING is a style of theft which I have never practised, and, consequently of which I know nothing.
