bing a waste, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bing a waste v.

also bing avast, bingavast

[the OED suggests a poss. Gypsy root but offers no elaboration + SE waste, wasteland, desert or f. 16C SE aways, away; Carew, in The History of Bampfylde Moore Carew (1750), has bing feck you, devil take you, and bing lee ma, devil miss me, as ‘gypsy language’]

(UK Und.) to go away, to depart.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 86: Nowe bynge we a waste to the hygh pad the ruffmanes is by.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching A3: There was a Patrico [...] hee pryg a praunce, he byng a wast into the darkemans.
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary: Bing a wast, get you hence.
1612		Dekker Canting Song O per se O O1: For all your Duds are bingd awaste the bien Coue hath the loure.
1637		Dekker Canting Song in Eng. Villainies (8th edn) O: [as cit. 1612].
1641		R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Then all, with Bag and Baggage, bing awast.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue n.p.: [as cit. 1612].
a.1674		‘The Rogues . . . praise of his Stroling Mort’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 20: Bing awast to Rome-vile then / Oh my dimber wapping Dell.
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Bing a wast, get you hence.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 202: Binged awast in a Darkness, stole away in the night-time.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: bing-awast Get you hence: Begone; haste away; Bing’d awast in a Darkmans; i.e. Stole away in the Night-time.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; stole away in the night.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1822		(con. early 17C) W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II 131: ‘Bing avast, bing avast!’ replied his companion; ‘yon other is rattling Reginald Lowestoffe.’.
1834		(con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 173: Come bing avast, my merry pals.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1856		‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Bing avast, there, my merry men; bing avast there, and leave us together.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 11: bingavast Get you gone, ‘Bing we to New York;’ go we to New York.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
1861		Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 9 Nov. 216: But Bingavast’s the word! I must namaze.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1927		D. Hammett ‘The Big Knockover’ Story Omnibus (1966) 305: ‘If Vance’s rats and the bulls will play a couple of seconds longer — bingavast.’ I led the way across the roofs.