subs. (thieves’).—A pocketbook; a READER (q.v.).
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 244. It was the swell’s RUSSIA—a RUSSIA, you know, is a pocket-book.
subs. (thieves’).—A pocketbook; a READER (q.v.).
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 244. It was the swell’s RUSSIA—a RUSSIA, you know, is a pocket-book.
