bouncing cheat, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bouncing cheat n.

[SE bounce + cheat n. (1); the bottle ‘bounces’ as the cork is drawn]

(UK Und.) a bottle.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.