Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bushel (of coke) n.

a man.

1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Outside and Declined’ Sporting Times 8 Aug. 1/3: My old bushel can throw at me all the language I require, / I’ve no use at all for any from outsiders.
1938		(con. 1900s) in J.B. Booth Sporting Times 88: But the bushel of coke said, ‘Go away’.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
1998		C. Fitzpatrick ‘Gower ’98’ on Sussex University Canoe Club 🌐 So to round the night off, the chief of the battle cruiser let us bo peep in the near and far. Well those of us not in a chalet or peter pan. What a top bushel of coke.