tax n.
1. a stolen item, an act of theft.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Kendal Mercury 17 Apr. 6/1: Tom Wood was a cracksman [...] / Good at grabbing a reader, or freeing a prad, / Or lifting the tax from gents out on the pad. | |
 | OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 tax n. [...] A theft, stolen stuff. |
2. (UK black) any form of charge, e.g. to a dance.
| (con. 1979–80) Brixton Rock (2004) 138: There was another liquor-belly man [...] receiving the entry tax. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Morn. Herald 18 Nov. 🌐 Fanum tax is a gag referring to YouTube creator Fanum, who ‘taxes’ people by stealing their food. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a highwayman.
| Paul Clifford II 97: The [...] ‘tax-collector,’ – for that was the designation by which Augustus thought proper to style himself and companions. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a disreputable shopkeeper, whose prices are set extortionately high.
| (ref. to 1878) in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |