sexton blake n.
1. a cake.
![]() | Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’. | |
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![]() | On Coast 77: Sexton Blake: Sunday cake. |
2. a fake.
![]() | Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 170: It sure don’t look like a Sexton Blake. | |
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![]() | Raiders 79: The hot-watch man produced a jeweller’s loupe [...] ‘Well, what you have here, my friend, are a pile of Sexton Blakes [...] fakes.’. |