subs. (common).—An habitual adulteress.
c. 1889. (Quoted from Spectator in ‘A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant’). Sooner than be out of the fashion they will tolerate what should be most galling and shaming to them—the thought that by these they are put down among the FREE-LANCES.
Also said of a journalist attached to no particular paper.
