stickers n.
(US tramp) beggars who pretend to be selling sticking plaster to gain an approach to a possible donor.
![]() | Mother of the Hoboes 43: The Rating Of The Tramps. 10 Stickers: disguised begging by selling court plaster. |
In phrases
(UK und.) to refuse to hand over (money).
![]() | Fetters for Twenty 72: ‘Watch out Luggy Mick don’t play stickers with his fifty [pounds]’. |