Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see raleigh bike n.

a habitual thief.

1789		G. Parker Life’s Painter 178: Village bustler. A bustling fellow that has such a propensity to thieving, that whatever place he is in he will not go to bed till he has robbed somebody, from the dish-clout in the sink-hole, to the diamond ring of the lady’s toilet.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: village butlers old thieves, that would rather steal a dishclout than discontinue the practice of thieving.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

(W.I.) a local philanderer and ladies’ man.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.