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mace verb- to swindle, to defraud UK, 1790
- — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- to owe money UK
From the previous sense. - — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- to steal or cheat, especially by means of the three card trick UK
A variation of the sense “to swindle”. - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
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