Swell Street n.
the West End of London.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1737–9) Rookwood (1857) 178: Soon then I mounted in swell street high. | |
| Mysteries of London vol. 2 142: Swell-street The West End. | |
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In phrases
well-off.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 273: A family man who appears to have plenty of money, and makes a genteel figure, is said by his associates to be in swell street. [Ibid.] 277: [...] a man who is in swell street, that is, having plenty of money. |
(UK Und.) to live a prosperous, respectable, secure life.
| Sl. and Its Analogues VII 459/2: to live in Swell-street, to reside in the West End. |