Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Stick-slinger
subs. phr. (thieves’).—See quot.
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1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 46. Those who plunder with violence; as … ‘bludgers’ or ‘STICK SLINGERS,’ who rob in company with low women.
