GAG. An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance.
GAGE, or FOGUS. A pipe of tobacco.
GALLIGASKINS. Breeches.
GAPESEED. Sights; any thing to feed the eye.
GAYING INSTRUMENT. The penis.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE INS. In debt, in gaol, and in danger of remaining there for life.
GERMAN DUCK. Half a sheep's head boiled with onions.
GIGGLERS. Wanton women.
GILFLURT. A proud minks, a vain capricious woman.
GLIMFLASHY. Angry, or in a passion.
GLUEPOT. A parson: from joining men and women together in matrimony.
GOOSECAP. A silly fellow.
GORGER. A gentleman.
GRIN. To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall.
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