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(ref. to 1730s) Dick Turpin in Partridge DU (1949) 264/2: The rascally forty-pounders [...] a cant name for [police] officers; who received that reward with each ‘Tyburn ticket.’.at forty-pounder (n.) under forty, adj.1
(ref. to 1730s) Dick Turpin in Partridge DU (1949) 264/2: The rascally forty-pounders [...] a cant name for [police] officers; who received that reward with each ‘Tyburn ticket.’.
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