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dip
noun- a pickpocket US, 1859
- I always went with good thieves, for I had become a first-class dip[.] — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 115, 1952
- Allie had visited Houston and Galveston, convincing a coterie of dips that the fix was in in Forth Worth[.] — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 353, 1953
- Thus a pickpocket squad cop never molests a recognized dip at the Garden. The dip is merely there for entertainment and relaxation. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 286, 1956
- I once knew a very clever little dip, a Welsh girl, who was in a class by herself as a pickpocket until she developed arthritis[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 20, 1956
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 796, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- They ran tarot scams and were excellent dips. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 55, 1997
- Pure fucking manna, it were. Dips, snatches, cameras, purses, the odd Barbour jacket[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 7, 2001
- a short swim UK, 1843
- I stopped for a quick dip in the sea and got a costly reminder that the ocean isn’t my friend. — The Guardian, 25 January 2002
- a foolish person US, 1932
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- I sat there pulling my pud like a total dip and told her to take her whatchamacallit and go home[.] — Lawrence Block, No Score [The Affairs of Chip Harrison Omnibus], p. 150, 1970
- You little dip! Did you come all the way back here to fix me breakfast? — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 199, 1978
- diphtheria; a patient suffering from diphtheria and, therefore, classified by disease UK, 1961 Medical.
- crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice Street Terms, October 1994
- a member of the Diplomatic Service UK
- — John le Carre, A Small Town in Germany, 1968
- a cigarette that has been dipped in embalming fluid UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 293, 2003
- from a male perspective, a swift act of sexual intercourse UK
- — Jonathan Thomas, English as She is Fraught, 1976
- an injection of a narcotic US
- — J.E. Schmidt, Narcotics Lingo and Lore, p. 39, 1959
- a pinch of chewing tobacco; the chewing tobacco itself US
- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 57, 1997
- a light UK
Hence “dips! ” (lights out!). - — The Felstedian, December 1947
▶ on the dip
engaged in pickpocketing US- — Captain Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 166, 1949
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