Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to slip something unobtrusively into another person’s hand.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Creeme to slip or slide any thing into another’s Hand.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.