FLICKER. To drink. "Flicker with me," drink with me.
FLICKERING. Laughing; smiling; drinking.
FLICKING. Cutting. "Flick me some panam and caffar," cut me some bread and cheese. "Flick the Peter and rake the swag, for I want to pad my beaters," cut the portmanteau and divide the plunder, I want to walk my boots, (to be off.)
FLIMP. To tussel; to wrestle.
FLIMPING. Garroting; highway robbery.
FLIMSEY. A bank-note.
FLING. To get the best of another. "The sharp will fling the bloke," the rogue will cheat the man.
FLOORERS or TRIPPERS. Fellows that cause persons to slip or fall in the street, and then, while assisting them up, steal their watch or portmonnaie. They are sometimes called "rampers." A gentleman in a hurry on his way to the bank, or any other place of business, is suddenly stopped by a fellow directly in front of him, going in an opposite direction to himself, who has apparently slipped or stumbled, and in endeavoring to save himself from falling, thrusts his head into the pit of the gentleman's stomach, thereby knocking him down. Immediately two very kind gentlemen, one on each side, assist him to rise, and when on his feet busy themselves in brushing the dirt from his clothing, during which operation they pick his pockets. Thanking his kind assistants with much profuseness, he goes on his way, and very soon afterwards finds himself minus his watch or pocket-book, and perhaps both.
FLUE-SCRAPERS. Chimney-sweeps.
FLUSH. Plenty; the cove.