DRY UP. Be silent; stop that.
DUB. A key; a picklock.
DUB LAY. Robbing houses by picking the locks.
DUB O' THE HICK. A blow on the head. The copper tipt the dromedary a dub o' the hick with his drum-stick.
DUB THE JIGGER. Open the door.
DUBLER. A picker of locks.
DUCE. Two cents; two.
DUDS. Clothes.
DUFF. Pudding.
DUFFER. A fellow, in the dress of a sailor, who knocks at the basement-door, and inquires if the lady of the house does not want to buy some smuggled goods, and then exhibits imitation silks, satins, Irish linens, etc., etc., which he pretends to have run ashore without the knowledge of the custom-house officers.