clicker, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

clicker n.¹

[orig. shoemaker’s jargon clicker, a foreman shoemaker who cuts out the leather for boots and shoes, and gives it out to the workmen, or a workman who works at cutting the uppers of boots and shoes]

a shopkeeper’s (orig. a shoemender’s) tout.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Clicker, the Shoe-maker’s Journeyman or Servant, that cuts out all the work, and stands at or walks before the door, and saies ‘What d’ ye lack, sir? What d’ ye buy, madam’?
1725		New Canting Dict.
1734		C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 14: He hired himself as a Clicker to a Shoemaker.
1748		Dyche & Pardon New General Eng. Dict. (5th edn).
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 102: CLICKER, a female touter at the bonnet shops in Cranbourn Alley.
1873		Sl. Dict.

clicker n.1

clicker n.¹