bustle n.1
money.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Memoirs of Dan Donnelly’ in Fancy I XVI 375: His house was nightly overflowing with company, bustle was in plenty. | |
| Annals of Sporting 1 Jan. 51: Challenges are but childish ebullitions, when made generally, or without having the bustle ready. | |
| Paul Clifford I 102: He who surreptitiously accumulates bustle is in fact nothing better than a buzz-gloak! | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. | |
| New and Improved Flash Dict. | |
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Letters by an Odd Boy 160: Beans, blunt, brass, bustle, coppers, chinkers, chips, dibbs, mopusses, needful, ochre, pewter, quids, rays, rowdy, shiners, stuff, tin, and stumpy! | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 13: Bustle, money. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 13 Apr. 1/3: [A]nyone verdant enough to put up his brass to say he could spot the little Jack and hope to get paid while there was a ‘bustle’ or ‘cross barney’ left in the bag. | |
| (con. 1860s) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 56: The bustle. The bunce. The money. |
In phrases
(Aus. Und.) cadging a loan.
| Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 89: ‘On the bustle’ is thieves’ push slang for cadging or obtaining petty objects by cheek or cleverness. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 10 Feb. 1/1: The said gent [i.e. ‘an impudent Jew’] has been on the bustle for the past 12 years. |
to harrass, pressurize.
| Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 17: One poor, skinny spook from Redfern’s put the bustle on you and you’ve all shit yourselves. |