Clean gone.—Quite out of sight, vacated, levanted.
Cleaned Out.—Having lost all your money, beaten, ruined. “O horrid, horrid case.”
Clean Shirt Day.—Sunday.
Clenched it.—Completed the thing, or clenched the bargain.
Clockey.—A watchman, also a travelling clockmaker.
Cly.—A pocket, cly-fakers, pickpockets.
Coal.—Money, post-the-coal, pay down the money at once.
Cock and Hen Club.—A public-house concert, or Free-and-Easy, to which women are admitted, and everybody is supposed to do as they like, to stand upon no ceremony, come when they please, and brush when it suits. But all sorts of lush must be tipped for on delivery. “Poor Trust” being dead and buried.—“To keep the game alive,” Logic said to Tom and Jerry, “you shall now accompany me to what is termed a Cock and Hen Club. Where you may say and do as you like, the crib is situated in an obscure part of the town, but I know it well.” * * * On entering the club-room Jerry was struck with astonishment at the surrounding group. “It is nothing new to me,” replied Logic, “but rather a renewed feature of low Life in London. But we will ask the waiter for some little account about the chairman, who appears to me to be an original; and we must also obtain, if possible, a trifling outline of his assistant, the Lady Patroness of this meeting. The chairman in petticoats.”
“They are both out-and-outers,” answered the waiter, “and nothing like them on earth to keep such an unruly company together, as ‘Any-thing Tommy’ and ‘Half-quartern Luce!’ The chairman Tommy, has been, by turns, a costard-monger, a coal-whipper, a flying dustman, a boner of stiff-ones—that’s a resurrection man, and a “anything,” to yarn an honest penny, and a bit of a prig, if it suited him, sooner than have to complain of an empty Victualling-Office. He can throw off a flash chaunt in the first style; and patter slang, better than most blades on the town:”—
Come all you rolling kiddy boys, that in London does abound,
If you wants to see a bit of life, go to the Bull in the Pound;
’Tis there you’ll see Poll, Bet, and Sal, with many other Flames,
And “pitch and hustle,” “ring the bull,” and lots of Fancy games.