receiver general n.
1. a prostitute.
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. (prizefighting) a contestant who is badly beaten up.
![]() | Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 26: He turns all his opponents into Receivers General. | |
![]() | Pierce Egan’s Life in London 7 Aug. 221/1: Savage is known to be a game man, extremely active his legs, and a very troublesome customer ; but on this occasion he proved himself a Receiver-general. | |
![]() | Mirror of Life 16 Feb. 11/1: But with Greenfield [...] he never had a chance, and for the four rounds the battle lasted he came up to be receiver-general . | |
![]() | Ulysses [ebook] The welterweight sergeantmajor had tapped some lively claret in the previous mixup during which Keogh had been receivergeneral of rights and lefts,. |