dragger n.1
one who robs vehicles.
![]() | View of Society n.p.: The Rum Dragger generally follows broad-wheel waggons on horse-back, and counterfeiting drunkenness, rides up against the shaft-horses [etc.]. | |
![]() | Marsh 50: It was the van draggers that pinched the whole outfit. | |
![]() | Und. Nights 85: A dragger, i.e., a hook who steals luggage from parked cars. | |
![]() | Anatomy of Crime 193: Dragger: Steals from vehicles. | |
![]() | A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 76: George could hot-wire it and drive it away quick as a wink [...] and was fast gaining a reputation as a pukka wheel-man, or ‘dragger’. |