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St. Giles's Greek
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English
Noun
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en slang obsolete slang or cant language.
en 1828 Peter Miller Cunningham Two Years in New South Wales 52 A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established —
References
en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary