Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Captain Bloods n.

[rhy. sl. = spud n.3 (1); ult. the Irish adventurer Captain Thomas Blood (1618–80), best-known for a failed attempt to steal the British Crown Jewels in 1671]

(Aus.) potatoes.

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