truck, v.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

truck v.²

[SE truck, to give (a commodity) in exchange]

(UK Und.) to steal money by confusing the shopkeeper who is giving change.

a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: truck or turn stealing money under pretence of changing it.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1821		Flash Dict.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.