Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a promiscuous woman, a good-time girl; a prostitute (see cite 1835 [2]).

1834		in Flash Chaunter 14: [song title] The Shickster To Her Dab Had Gone.
1835		‘My Shickster Molly’ in Knowing Chaunter 43: I care not for pals tho’ they call me C. P., / ’Cause my shickster Molly goes tailing for me.
1835		‘Poll Holdfast’ in Cove in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 235: Poll Holdfast and I were both chicksters d’ye see, / And work’d on the pave both together.
1836		‘Nanny, The Frisky’ in Flash Casket 75: The chicksters of Brompton, can move.
1839		W.A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; Report 168: Cocum gonnofs flash by night the cooters in the boozing kens, and send their lushy shicksters out to bring the ruin in.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 58: Stunning place – bona shicksters, and clys worth touching, eh, cully?
1855		Yokel’s Preceptor 8: This shickster is a tidy sticking piece.
1860		G.A. Sala Lady Chesterfield’s Letters 51: Tell Madame Shickster — to whom, I am delighted to hear, Mrs. de Fytchett has taken you — to make your dresses full.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. 9/2: Shake this mob, Bill, and speel to the den, and let our lushy shicksters bring the ruin in. Get away from these fellows, Bill, and come away home, and let our tippling women bring in the gin.
1891		F.W. Carew Autobiog. of a Gipsey 414: A reg’lar ’igh-flyin’ shickster come up and told me ’s how she’d spotted me workin’ in the Strand.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 71: Shakester, or Shickster, a female.
1904		Sun (NY) 10 July 29/4: Here is a genuine letter written in thieves’ slang, recently found by the English police [...] I gave a skister’s red thimble and slang and a cat to my mollisker stalling while we cracked the fakir’s chovey.