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The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 33: The Squires, Beaus, Cits, Bullies, &c. that come all crowding in Shoals.at bully, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 33: The Squires, Beaus, Cits, Bullies, &c. that come all crowding in Shoals. The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 68: If they [i.e. prostitutes] can any ways get you into their Case (as they call it) [...] they’ll impudently hawl you to.at case, n.3
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 65: The Play-house [...] is the most proper Place for her [i.e. a bawd] to put off her damag’d Commodities.at commodity, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 62: When we have hit of our Cully (and they have commonly a damnable Notion of a Person for their Turn) , one of our Gang marches directly before him.at cully, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 51: I have seen their Mathematical Flats and Bars; nay [...] Mathematical Fullams too.at flat, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 51: I have seen their Mathematical Flats and Bars; nay [...] Mathematical Fullams too.at fulhams, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 63: This Account of this Piece of Roguery [...] as I had it from my worthy Informer (one of the Masters of the Game).at game, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 68: Hire a Hackney Whore, as your Citizens do their Horses, for a Journey, and no more.at hackney, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 69: A strong Party of Rogues and Bullies [...] ready upon Occasion to hector and insult you, to strip and murder you.at hector, v.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 60: Let them [...] try, whether a Horse-pond, or a House of Office, will work any thing towards their Reformation.at house of office (n.) under house, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 36: They [i.e. actors] had best take Care that by their Farces and Drolls, and their Jack-Pudding Tricks, they don’t at last pull their Houses upon their Heads.at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 69: A Bawdyhouse! why ’tis [...] more to be avoided by far than a Jakes or a Pesthouse.at jakes, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 41: I perceived they only made a Property of me, as they do of all Strangers, and so I knock’d off in Time.at knock off, v.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) [as 1699].at pad, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 66: Their [i.e. a prostitute] Legs will direct you that they have rid hard in former Times.at ride, v.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 52: When they have got a Gentleman, who they design to rook [...] some are sharping him out of his Money within, others tampering with his Servants without, to find out the Strength and Manner of his Estate.at rook, v.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 47: They [i.e. cheating gamblers] have their Whores, and Setters, their Thieves, and their Pickpockets; their false Dice and cards, and almost all other Engines for Mischief.at setter, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 39: Two or three of the sharpest of the Gang.at sharp, adj.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 62: If any body has any Right to a Snack, ’tis this Gentleman, who saw me take it [i.e. a deliberately dropped guinea] up.at snack, n.1
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 50: But they say, all Things there [i.e. at a casino] are very Square and Honest.at square, adj.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 61: Guinea-Dropping, or Sweetning, is a paltry little Cheat that was introduced to the World about sixty Years ago.at sweetening, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 71: Because Trading’s dead, and Money’s scarce, and you look like a civil Gentleman [...] you shall have one of them [i.e. a brothel prostitute] for half a Crown.at trading, n.
The Tricks of the Town Laid Open (4 edn) 55: As a Gentleman and a Stranger, you’re most in Danger to be trapann’d.at trapan, v.
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