subs, phr. (costers’).—1. Music.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i., p. 21. Or they will call to the orchestra, saying, ‘Now then you catgut-scrapers! Let’s have a HA’PORTH OF LIVELINESS.’
2. (common).—A loitering Lawrence; a SLOWCOACH (q.v.).
