Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bugger n.2

[bug n.4 (1a)]

(US Und.) a pickpocket.

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1881
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[US]J.D. McCabe Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bugger. – A pickpocket.
[US]Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).