subs. (old cant).—A half-crown (B. E.).
PHRASES.—TO SWEAR LIKE A TROOPER (a simile of hard swearing), ‘to volley oaths till the air is blue’; ‘You’ll die the death of a TROOPER’S horse’ (‘a jocular method of telling anyone he will be hanged, i.e., will die with his shoes on’—GROSE).
