verb. (common).—To pawn for more than the pledge is worth: MOSKERS (q.v.) = men who make MOSKENEERING a profession. Also as subs. = the agent.

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  1887.  W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Straight Tip to all Cross Coves.

        Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack;
  Or MOSKENEER, or flash the drag.

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  1893.  P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, 100. He MOSKENEERS from twenty to thirty supers a week. Ibid., p. 99. As we were talking in came Johnson, a fair MOSKENEER.

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