subs. (common).—A ruined gambler. Cf. MUCK, verb., sense 2.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 279. I was a MUCK-SNIPE when I was there—why, a MUCK-SNIPE, sir, is a man regularly done up, coopered, and humped altogether.
subs. (common).—A ruined gambler. Cf. MUCK, verb., sense 2.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 279. I was a MUCK-SNIPE when I was there—why, a MUCK-SNIPE, sir, is a man regularly done up, coopered, and humped altogether.
