Green’s Dictionary of Slang

small beer.

1654

Witts Recreations ‘Fancies and Fantasticks’ No. 119: Sack’s but single broth; Ale’s meat, drink, and cloth.

(US Und.) to cheat one’s confederates when dividing loot.

1926

‘Und. and Its Vernacular’ in Clues mag. 158—62: single-duke Hold out on the proceeds of a crime.

a one-eyed person.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

1. a £5 note.

1937–84

Partridge DSUE (1984) 1072/1: from ca. 1850.

2. £1.

1937–84

Partridge DSUE (1984) 1072/1: C.20.

an act of urination.

2018

I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 149: The watery, milky discharge fae my cock every time I take a single fish.