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tickle
noun- a robbery or other profitable criminal enterprise UK, 1938
Probably derives from the image of a poacher “tickling a trout”, an activity for the “light-fingered”. - With a bit of luck Sapphire might have the tickle of a lifetime[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 11, 1956
- This little tickle I presented them could see me in the sun for the rest of my life. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law [britpulp], p. 42, 1974
- in the sport of polo, a weak hit on the ball UK
- Harry Wales has a little tickle! — The Guardian, 29 July 2003
- a pleasurable sensation caused by drug use UK
- I need something to give me a buzz, if I could just get a bag [of heroin] now I know I could get a tickle off it. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 52, 2000
- a deep v-bottom on a boat; also, especially in Newfoundland, a narrow strait between mainland and an island CANADA
- The tides are of no great size at the Atlantic coast, but they are sufficient to produce strong tidal currents in the archipelagoes and channels of different orders: runs, tickles, and rattles. — V. Tanner, Outlines of the Geography, Life & Customs of Newfoundland-Labrador, p. 285, 1947
- That boat’s maybe too tickle’y; it’s got quite a tickle onto it. — Lewis Poteet, oral citation from The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 116, 1999
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