subs. (common).—1. A waiter at a tea-garden.
2. (rhyming slang).—A policeman, or COPPER (q.v.).
3. (thieves’).—A thief. See GUNNER.
1893. Pall Mall Gazette, 2 Jan., p. 4, c. 3. Quite a ‘school’ of youthful GRASSHOPPERS are in possession of one corner of the ice, but on the Westminster side of the park ’pon bridge there is a good sprinkling of old hands.
