or hoppy, subs. (common)—A dancing master; a CAPER-MERCHANT (q.v.). Also, a fiddler.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1823.  BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v.

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  1892.  SYDNEY WATSON, Wops the Waif, ch. iii., p. 4. Who-ay, Cully, here’s HOPPY with the ROZIN.

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