cribbing cove n.
a thief.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The Treadmill’ in James Catnach (1878) 139: And he who brought the Bill in, / Is threatn’d by the cribbing coves. |
a thief.
| ‘The Treadmill’ in James Catnach (1878) 139: And he who brought the Bill in, / Is threatn’d by the cribbing coves. |